The sooner patients begin neurorehabilitation, the better their functional outcome

Brain Injury

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1119-1123

  León Carrión, José ^a   MacHuca Murga, Fernando ^a   Solís Marcos, Ignacio ^a   León Domínguez, Umberto ^b   Domínguez Morales, María Del Rosario ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b Ctr for Brain Injury Rehabilitation   (Spain)

Author keywords

Early treatment; FAM; FIM; Functional outcome; Neurorehabilitation programmes; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROREHABILITATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; REHABILITATION; REHABILITATION PATIENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN INJURIES; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPAIN; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84881443081     PISSN: 02699052     EISSN: 1362301X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02699052.2013.804204     Document Type: Article

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