“Special Treatment” for Traumatic Brain Injury Patients

Rehabilitation for traumatic brain injury patients should be carried through, from the acute phase of the injury to the recovery phase, and even lifelong rehabilitation. The earlier the rehabilitation, the better the prognosis for the future. Daily life care has the following aspects: 1. Pay attention to the quietness of the living room, the light should be darker, and reduce all the interference to the patient. 2. When the patient’s memory and intelligence are impaired, it is difficult for him/her to express the symptoms, so the symptoms are hidden, atypical and coexisting with multiple diseases, so he/she needs to observe the condition carefully and comprehensively. 3.Don’t change the original living habits of chronic patients, such as waking up early, washing, eating, placing objects, etc. can be natural. Try to encourage individuals to take care of themselves and do things they like. Enhance the patient’s sense of responsibility, such as being responsible for their own apartment doors and windows, cleaning bedside tables, sweeping the floor, etc., so that they can maintain confidence in life. 4. Maintain the regularity of living, eating and sleeping, and gradually cultivate good living habits. 5.Patients with mental symptoms should pay attention to avoiding various factors secondary to mental symptoms. 6. Give sufficient nutrition and water according to the needs of the condition, and provide nasal feeding or intravenous high nutrition if necessary. Patients with traumatic brain injury are more prone to the sequelae of intellectual disability, and should pay attention to the early commencement of various skills training and rehabilitation treatment and care.