For professionals

Introduction

Six weeks of bed rest in a dark room: until the eighties, this was a common prescription for non-congenital brain injury (ABI) even in mild cases. Bed rest is now outdated and the sense of rehabilitation at ABI is indisputable. As soon as the critical acute phase after the injury seems to be over in the hospital, the search for an appropriate follow-up process to achieve the best recovery begins. The geriatric specialist and rehabilitation doctor play a crucial role in this search and in neurorehabilitation itself. But what determines the route to recovery in the Dutch rehabilitation landscape? Which ABI patient receives rehabilitation from the geriatric specialist, and which from the rehabilitation doctor? Are we really getting the most out of it together?