Brain Injury Rehabilitation
Kentfield's specialized program is designed for inpatients with medical, physical, and cognitive problems resulting from acquired or traumatic brain injury.

Early Intervention and Coma Management
Our interdisciplinary team uses clinical assessment to establish rehabilitation goals for minimally responsive head injury patients. Our experience indicates such results-oriented treatment improves outcomes. Through aggressive therapy, rehabilitation and medication management, more than 85 percent of our unresponsive patients emerge from a coma or vegetative state within eight weeks. Other program features include:

• bed and wheelchair positioning to improve tone and head control
• splinting and serial casting to correct contractures
• medication trials to improve cognition and reduce spasticity
• nutrition consultation
• family support and education
• tracheostomy management and weaning with 24-hour respiratory therapy services

After the initial eight weeks of therapy, patients who have met the primary goals continue with focused neurological rehabilitation. Patients who have not met the goals are transitioned to a less intensive level of care.

Acute Brain Injury Rehabilitation
During this phase of recovery, our goal is to help patients attain independence in mobility, self-care, communication, cognition and psychosocial adjustment. Treatment involves:

• primary care by a board certified physiatrist
• interdisciplinary team approach
• specialized nursing care
• aggressive integrated physical and occupational therapy
• counseling, education and behavior management
• family-centered case management and discharge planning