The Neurorehabilitation unit is an interdisciplinary team approach to rehabilitation, enhancing our comprehensive treatment philosophy. Each patient is evaluated and an individual treatment plan developed which focuses the team on the patient's functional goals. Our staff's extensive experience in medical and rehab services allow us to successfully integrate structural therapy with comprehensive medical care...

Throughout the rehab process, the physician directed team work closely with the patient, family, and other specialists to promote optimum communication including goal identification, process monitoring, discharge planning and after case follow-up.

The services include :
» Assessment services
» Occupational therapy
» Physiotherapy
» Speech therapy
» Special educator
» Behavioral management
» Biofeedback therapy
» Hyberbaric oxygen therapy
» Follow-up services
» Consultant reviews
Assessment services, prior to taking a patient for treatment the patient undergoes a complete assessment of his rehabilitation needs by a neurologist/neurosurgeon who identify goals and decide the treatment.

Patient has the sole discretion of accepting/choosing the treatment modality.

Behavioral management

During the recovery process, the neurological injured patient manifests a wide spectrum of behavioral changes. These range from disorientation in time and space, unable to establish continuity in their lives, because their retrograde and / or anterograde memory maybe severely impaired.

Neurological problems affect four domains of human activity.
» Motor behavior
» Communication
» Cognition
» Changes in behavior and personality

It is the aim of this program to restore and restructure patient's life by providing stability and purpose. The emphasis is on long-term care and support, which affect the family and social life.

A special educator assists the child in teaching the child to meet their day to day needs, help in developing functional independent walking ability, and / or wheeled mobility.

Developmental disability represents the system changes that an individual experiences from conception till adulthood. A child development is holistic and therefore its evaluation, on going assessment and intervention needs multidisciplinary inputs from the team of individuals having expertise in pediatric development.

The pediatric components of the neurorehab program aims to provide multidisciplinary evaluation and comprehensive treatment plans for referrals of children with:

» Developments delay/mentally handicapped
» Cerebral palsy
» Childhood neurological problem
» Speech and language delay including autism
» Behavioral and psychosomatic disorders.

Physio-occupational Therapy

Physio-occupational therapy is a unique multifaceted treatment procedure to help neurologically affected patients to maximize their potential and gain skills to face challenging situations or disabilities. They help disabled individuals to engage in meaningful purposeful activity by planning and implementing activity based treatment program.

Physiotherapist and Occupational Therapist aim at not just life, but "Quality Life" for the patients and the family. They provide holistic care of the patient taking into account the physical, mental, spiritual and psychological aspects of a patient's recovery.

The therapeutic exercises provide help in regaining functional independence. Aids and adaptive devices are suggested. Environmental modifications are incorporated to facilitate recovery.

For patients who have to live with a permanent disability, vocational evaluation and guidance are provided. Liaison with other team members of the NRU helps to cover a wider arena of problems for the patients. Therapists help in effective reintegration of patients within the society. The I.I.T. Delhi has computer software for the use of severely disabled like quadriplegics. They will also be asked to help in a case-to-case basis.

The occupational therapist help to identify suitable employment opportunities and offer vocational guidance or help the patient to adjust to changed circumstances in his present job.

The Indraprastha Apollo hospital is the only private hospital in India to offer the latest biofeedback therapy and the hyperbaric oxygen therapy as a part of a complete range of options for neurorehabilitation.

NRU is committed to provide highest quality patient care to achieve meaningful functional outcomes