Ischemic Brain Injury

The traumatic Injury of Brain (TBI) can cause disorders of a lot of speeches and language that would mean the need of orthophonie. That is why the role of orthophonie in the process of rehabilitation of a patient of injury of traumatic brain is very vital.

The Speech of TBI And the Problems of Language
A person can have the conscience loss after an injury of traumatic brain. This conscience loss can vary seconds, the minutes, the hours, the days, the months or same the years. The longest one you are without conscience, the harshest your injury is. After a traumatic injury of brain, you can suffer from the secondary consequences, that are considered to be more mortal and more dangerous than the primary injury.

Certain of these secondary consequences include damages TO THE meninges of YOUR BRAIN, the traumatic hedmatome, increased the pressure of intracranial, herniation, the hyperventilation, the cerebral lesions ischedmique, and cerebral vasospasm. When these damages of brain arrive, they tend to affect on the part of your brain that are responsible of the speech and language treating and the production, thus you obtain the problems of speech and language.

The traumatic injuries of brain can cause you the loss of permanent or temporary memory, the orientation problems, the least cognitive executions or the slower treatment of thought, the attention problems, the competence deterioration in the basic calculation, writing and the writing. You can have also Aphasia, where you have a word loss.

The traumatic injury of brain can cause you also the difficulty in reading simple and complex the news. Your competences naming, of objects seen everyday, familiar others also can be affected. It can provoke also dysarthria, or the problems with the movement, that can cause you to have trembling movements take to talk about difficulty and to the writing.

The orthophonie For the Patients of Injury of Traumatic Brain
The treatment for the patients of injury of traumatic brain can be classified in three categories. There are different treatments for early, the environment and the last steps of an injury of traumatic brain. There are strategies also of the compensatory taught ones for a patient of TBI.

Early Climb Treatment
The treatment during the first step of an injury of traumatic brain would converge more on the medical stabilization. An orthophoniste would treat also more on to establish a reliable means of communication between the patient and the therapist. The patient also is taught how to indicate yes or no, when asked.

Another objective is for the patient to be able to do the ask simple by the gestures, the head signs, and the eye clignotements. The behavioral and mental condition of the patient also is treated. During the first step, the stimulation of sensorimotor also is done. Where in the therapist would raise and would stimulate the direction of the patient of view, the odor, hearing and the key.

Treatment of the environment of Etape
The principal objective during the treatment of step of the environment is for the patient to develop an increased check of the environment and the independence. The sufficiency of interaction of the patient to the environment also is increased. The therapist should stimulate also the patient to have organized and the resolved thought. The usages of ecological one incite are to be diminished during this phase.

A lot of activities setting up themselves on cognitive competences as the perception, the attention, the memory, abstracted thinking, the organization and the planning, and the judgement, also are given.

Last Treatment of Etape
During the last step of treatment, the objective of orthophonistes is for the patient to be able to develop the independence and the complete functional characters. The environment check is eliminated and the patient is taught compensatory strategies to do facing problems that became permanent.

Certain of these compensatory strategies are the usage of visual pictures, noting principal ideas, the repetition of equipment spoken/writes, and asking clarifications or repetitions when in the confusion state.