Acquired Brain Injury Unit

Available at:
Epworth Rehabilitation Richmond  +613 9426 6666
Epworth Rehabilitation Camberwell  +613 9809 2444

Epworth Rehabilitation has specialist Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) Rehabilitation Units located at Epworth Rehabilitation Richmond and Epworth Rehabilitation Camberwell. These units incorporate 20 inpatient beds at Richmond and 7 inpatient beds at Camberwell, to cater for outpatients and community therapy.

The inpatient and outpatient programs can provide help for people from the early stages after they emerge from coma, through to addressing issues relating to their return to community living.

During this process, accommodation is available for families of country patients.

Following acquired (traumatic) brain injury (ABI) people often experience a combination of difficulties with thinking, communication, physical functioning and control of behaviour and emotion.

Therapy teams which include specialists in rehabilitation medicine, nurses, physiotherapists, psychologists, speech pathologists, occupational therapists, social workers and vocational counsellors, develop goals with patients and their families aimed at maximising a person's level of independence following acquired brain injury.

Using a patient orientated system of team work, individual and group therapy programs are instituted for both inpatients and outpatients using the latest techniques and equipment for both cognitive and physical rehabilitation.

The programs not only aim to reduce ongoing disability post acquired brain injury, but also help individuals and their families adjust to ongoing changes in their lifestyle.

One key element of the program is that patients are followed up annually, with clinical research for up to ten years, enabling follow up post acquired brain injury in order to minimize difficulties that can occur when people resume their lives after being discharged from the more intensive therapy programs.