Real-world environmental enrichment rehabilitation paradigm in people with severe traumatic brain injury: a pilot feasibility study.

Background: The use of Environmental Enrichment (EE) has been widely studied in animal models. However, the application of the same in humans is limited to rehabilitation settings.

Objective: To investigate the feasibility of a community-based EE paradigm in adults with brain injury.

Adults with Cerebral Palsy: Navigating the Complexities of Aging.

The goal of this narrative review is to highlight the healthcare challenges faced by adults with cerebral palsy, including the management of long-term motor deficits, difficulty finding clinicians with expertise in these long-term impairments, and scarcity of rehabilitation options. Additionally, this narrative review seeks to examine potential methods for maintaining functional independence, promoting social integration, and community participation. Although the brain lesion that causes the movement disorder is non-progressive, the neurodevelopmental disorder worsens from secondary complications of existing sensory, motor, and cognitive impairments.

Effects of a 12-week, seated, virtual, home-based tele-exercise programme compared with a prerecorded video-based exercise programme in people with chronic neurological impairments: protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

Introduction: Exercise is vital to staying well and preventing secondary complications in people with chronic neurological impairments (CNI). Appropriate exercise is often inaccessible to this population. The purpose of the study is to investigate the effects of a seated, virtual exercise programme on heart rate, recovery, fatigue, pain, motivation, enjoyment and quality of life in people with CNI.

Feasibility of a home-based environmental enrichment paradigm to enhance purposeful activities in adults with traumatic brain injury: a case series.

Purpose: To assess the feasibility, safety, and functional recovery of an Environmental Enrichment (EE) inspired paradigm for enhancing daily activities in people with traumatic brain injury.

Methods: Two TBI-Caregiver dyads participated in the six-month study. A preinstalled harness provided the support structure that enabled the family to perform task-specific functional and cognitive goals.

Practice Structure and Locomotor Learning After Stroke.

Background And Purpose: The optimal characteristics of learning to promote recovery of walking have yet to be defined for the poststroke population. We examined characteristics of task practice that limit or promote learning of a novel locomotor pattern.

Methods: Thirty-two persons with chronic hemiparesis were randomized to 2 conditions (constant and variable practice) and participated in two 15-minute sessions of split-belt treadmill walking.

Go baby go café: a case study on an immersive rehabilitation environment to improve functional outcomes and quality of life.

Purpose: To determine the effectiveness of involving traumatic brain injury survivors in a novel "enriched rehabilitation environment" in which physical, cognitive, social and speech impairments are simultaneously addressed during training within a functioning business.

Method: Participant was a 34-year old with a history of a severe head injury 17 years ago due to a motor vehicle accident. A novel intervention was provided within the Go Baby Go Café at the University of Delaware during her two hour shifts, three times a week for 2 months.