Brain Injury Rehabilitation Program

SERVICES

Recovery from brain injury

BIRP is designed for individuals who have sustained a brain injury and require medical, physical, cognitive, or emotional support to recover.

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Types of injuries

BIRP addresses and treats a wide range of brain injuries, including:

• Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) that are typically caused by external forces such as falls, motor vehicle accidents, sports injuries, or assaults.

• Non-traumatic brain injuries due to internal factors like strokes, brain tumors, infections (such as meningitis or encephalitis), aneurysms, or lack of oxygen to the brain from events like cardiac arrest or near-drowning.

• Functional impairments, including cognitive difficulties (memory, attention, problem-solving), physical disabilities (mobility or coordination issues), communication problems (speech or language)

• Emotional or behavioral challenges such as depression, anxiety, or irritability.

Treatments

The BIRP program supports reengagement in meaningful activities through:

Comprehensive intensive interdisciplinary services, including physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, mental health counseling, neuropsychology, and medical management.
Coordinated whole person care for pain, headaches, cognitive rehabilitation, dizziness, visual changes, fatigue, and injury adjustment.
Targeted strategies to support compensation and remediation of challenges to improve function and reduce symptom experience.

Specialized services

Individualized outpatient care to help with successful transition to home, work or school, or the community. Our services aim to improve physical health and fitness, psychological well-being, coping and compensatory strategies, social and leisure activities, and capacity for returning to work and/or to other functional activities.

Neuropsychology

Our neuropsychological evaluation identifies a person’s cognitive strengths and weaknesses. It helps clarify thinking issues affecting daily life and supports diagnosis, treatment planning, and rehabilitation. Results can also inform educational or vocational decisions and guide strategies to manage or improve cognitive function.

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BIRP Outcomes

Cognitive Outcomes

On average, our patients saw a 26% reduction in cognitive disability levels, 13% improvement in cognition, 32% improvement in spoken language comprehension, and 17% improvement in spoken language expression.

Neuropsychology Outcomes

Our data reflect improvements in areas targeted for intervention, including Immediate Memory, Delayed Memory, and Attention, with an average score increase of 12% between intake and discharge.

Psychosocial Outcomes

On average our patients see a 38% reduction in symptoms of depression, 33% reduction in reported anxiety and a 32% reduction in severity of neurobehavioral symptoms.

PATIENT TESTIMONIALS

What our patients have to say

"RIW offered me a comprehensive, integrative, program that identified my cognitive deficits that needed treatment and toxic thinking that added unnecessary limitations. They developed a plan that addressed those issues and provided me with the structure and accountability to improve my self-care, organizational and problem-solving skills and endurance to enhance my quality of life and prepare me for the next phase of my recovery, more education, and a new career."

Jennifer Sarthon

"Working with the team at Rehabilitation Institute of Washington has changed my life. I was almost 3 years post injury and not a lot of hope for returning back to work. After working 7 weeks with the therapists and doctors I feel that I have been given the tools to be successful in my efforts to return to work. The therapists worked hard to tailor the program to my needs. This has been the step I needed in finishing the healing process and being able to return back to my community, work, and most important, my family."

Steve Thomas

"The structured program that RIW providers helped me to create was exactly what I needed in order to get back to work. We took a goal which I had been working toward for almost 2.5 years and made it happen. For that, I am incredibly appreciative."

Misty Wheeler

Brain Injury Rehabilitation