Is a diversified form of rehabilitation that aims to diminish negative long-term effects and achieve recovery with the help of a specialized multidisciplinary team with structured organization and processes tailored for individual needs to help neurological patients improve physiological functioning, activity, and participation by creating learning situations, inducing several means of recovery. In this setting, early initiation of treatment, the application of high intensity with specific goals and active therapies, and the coordinated work and multimodality of a specialized team play a major role.
Despite ongoing improvements in the acute treatment of neurological diseases many survivors need neurorehabilitation, as more than two-thirds show persisting neurologic deficits.
While early elements of neurorehabilitation are already taking place in the neurology unit after the acute treatment, the patient with relevant neurologic deficits usually takes part in an organized inpatient multidisciplinary rehabilitation program and eventually continues with therapies in an ambulatory setting afterward.
Furthermore, several further potential enhancers of neural plasticity, e.g., peripheral and brain stimulation techniques, pharmacological augmentation, and the use of robotics, are under evaluation.