Personal Injury Law

Brain Injury Rehabilitation: International Perspectives

By Bruce Stern

I just received this month's issue of Brain Injury Professional, the official publication of the North America Brain Injury Society.  This month's issue is entitled 'Brain Injury Rehabilitation:  International Perspectives.'  Included in the issue are articles regarding brain injury treatment in Italy, the United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden, Ireland and south Africa.  As President, Ron Savage, Ed.D. writes in his monthly message, 'This issue of Brain Injury Professional focuses on brain injury rehabilitation from a global perspective.  As we take a look outside of North America, many brain injury professionals find that other countries have similar challenges trying to meet the needs of this complex population with limited resources.'

This month's issue is edited by Chris MacDonell who for the past eighteen years has worked with the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF).  She writes in her guest editors' message:

I hope that by bringing information about providers in Sweden, Norway, Italy and Ireland in this publication, as well as information about the European Brain Injury Society, your interest will be tweaked to see how we reach across our borders and collaborate together as brain injury professionals to improve internationally what we can offer to those with ABI and their families.  We hope this will be a stepping off point where we learn how others make things work with limited funds, how support for families grow, and what we can do to be the advocates and voice of those that continue to have difficulty being heard.

I encourage all those interested in brain injury rehabilitation to become members of the North America Brain Injury Society.  As part of your membership, you will receive copies of the Brain Injury Professional.  NABIS can be contacted at www.nabis.org. 

Full post as published by Traumatic Brain Injury Law Blog on December 03, 2009 (boomark / email).