Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy

A person newly diagnosed with a brain injury is a person living in a very scary place. Sometimes this additional stress can cause secondary problems.  One that is not uncommon is hair loss, women particularly a difficult time with this. Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy (CRT), or the techniques used to help a patient regain life skills, is a stressful predicament to begin with but couple that with act of losing one’s hair and the scary and depressed factor has just multiplied by a factor of ten. Attempting to retrain a person the essential skills they are required to perform in order to live, becomes an even harder task the more depressed their hair loss makes them.

The medical staff needs to not only determine the physical situation of the patient but must determine the patient’s mental health as well. When a frightened woman is in a hospital for brain treatment and she reaches over to her pillow to find clumps and clumps of hair, hair loss women need to understand is the least of their concerns, but that objective analysis is not easy to do for anyone. Not when that anyone is the person going through the problems.  This is why it is so important to incorporate mental health treatment with the regular Cognitive treatment rehabilitation.  Healing the body physically requires a stable and healthy state of mind as well. 

Once the patient starts begins understanding and accepting, as a part of the process, hair loss women may come to find, begins to decrease and their locks will begin to regain some of their glow.  Again, it cannot be emphasized enough the importance for the doctors performing treatment to treat the entire person, not merely the physical makeup of the brain but the sensitive mind within it.  The successful progress of CTR will require this type of holistic treatment.  With a healthier mental state a patient will begin to see their skill sets improve at a faster rate than those who are still depressed.