How to use Maslow
for Traumatic Brain Injury
Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) causes a change to the regular function of your brain. However, with neuroplasticity, we have learned that you can actively take steps to mould your brain! With Maslow on your team, we can help manage your care & rehab while you look after what is most important – creating new brain connections!
If every brain injury is different don’t be surprised that your rehab is too!
There are approximately 100,000,000,000 neurons in your brain that act as information messengers to trillions of different connection points. With that many connections, every brain injury is different and your rehab will be much different to anyone else you know with a brain injury!
Your rehab program will be tough! But you will have a great supporting team around you that will specifically design your program for you. Your team may include a physio, occupational therapist, psychologist, speech therapist It will also be specifically designed for you.
Since TBIs are so different between each person, your therapy may include assessment and training in:
Bowel and bladder control
Bowel and bladder control
Speech and swallowing ability
Understanding language
Mental and behavioural states
Social support needs
Finding your feet and establishing your team after rehab hospital can be hard!
When your rehab dream team believes you’re ready to return to your regular life you will lose the support system you had in the hospital, be given a mountain of information, be required to build your own care & rehab team and teach your care team how to give the best possible care. This can be very daunting!
It takes a lot of time to develop your own personal support system and train your support workers to care for you how you’d like to be cared for while trying to shape new brain connections to complete tasks. At times you may feel lost and overwhelmed – that’s okay!
Where can Maslow fit into your team?
Maslow is great at playing the role of team manager. It can help manage your TBI care & rehab all in one place by allowing you to:
Create an in depth care routine and add images and video to provide support workers all the tools they need to provide the care you want.
Allow your therapists to create rehab programs that you can complete and provide feedback on.
Reduce the time it takes to teach your care team how to help you complete activities like scheduling appointments.
