Rehab vital in healthcare
Rehabilitation is the often overlooked service in the Health system. Whilst our acute hospitals do a wonderful job in sustaining life and critical functions following a major accident or trauma, the rest of their life may be spent in a wheelchair, or adapting to their changed circumstances because of a disability or impairment.
The extent to which they regain functionality and independence, and the quality of life they experience following their accident or disease, owes much to the quality of the rehabilitation they receive. This often involves many months of specialised inpatient rehabilitation, and often extends well beyond their discharge home.
The Royal Rehabilitation Centre Sydney provides specialist rehabilitation for people with an acquired disability as the result of a trauma, accident or disease. It specialises in complex rehabilitation including brain injury, spinal cord injury, complex stroke, burns and amputees.
The Brain Injury Rehabilitation Service provides both inpatient and community based rehabilitation to restore as much function and independence as possible, to enhance the quality of life for people with a traumatic brain injury, and that of their families and carers.
The Brain Injury Unit offers a state-wide service to clients who have sustained a traumatic brain injury. It is a 16-bed Unit, which offers individually tailored multi-disciplinary rehabilitation programs.
The Brain Injury Community Rehabilitation Team provides rehabilitation services to people living in the community who have sustained a traumatic brain injury. The team work with clients to help them maximise their level of emotional, social, physical and intellectual functioning and independence, and provide assistance and outpatient follow-up in respect to relationships, health, learning, finances, home modifications, work and leisure activities.
A donation to the Royal Rehabilitation Foundation supports the valuable work of Dr Clayton King and the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Service to develop new services and to purchase new equipment and technology.
Brain Injury Awareness Week: Monday 15 – Sunday 21 August. The Wall of Fame provides an opportunity for former Brain Injury Unit clients to share their inspiring and motivating stories. Their stories, like Emma’s are a reminder that the journey has just begun and the challenges are on-going.
Stephen Lowndes CEO
Royal Rehabilitation Centre
