Start with an assessment
Start with a rehabilitation consultation. A self-directed assessment is the wrong first step here. Tell us what happened and where you are now, and we will say honestly what is worth trying.
Traumatic brain injury and stroke recovery
This is where restorative and compensatory rehabilitation do their core work. Some pathways can be rebuilt with repeated, targeted load. Some cannot, and those need a route around them.
Wherever it landed
An injury does not follow the map, so this page names the pattern and leaves the systems to the assessment.
Wherever the injury landed
A brain injury does not respect the map. The assessment establishes which of the seven systems lost function, and the plan is built from that list.
Deep limbic system and basal ganglia
Mood, energy, sleep restoration and baseline anxiety, all of which change after an injury and all of which set the pace at which the rest can be rebuilt.
The Magnificent 7 is the work of Dr. Lisé DeLong. Copyright © 2013, all rights reserved.
What people describe
Two people with the same scan describe different days, and the description is what the plan is built from.
- Fatigue that arrives without warning and ends the day
- Words that were automatic now needing to be found
- Losing the plan halfway through carrying it out
- Noise and light costing more than they used to
How we work with it
Then the work itself
For this presentation that usually means Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy, structured therapy after injury, illness or decline. Emotional regulation and autonomic stability run alongside the cognitive exercises, because they set the pace at which anything else can be rebuilt.
Questions people ask
What people ask after an injury, including how long is too long to start.
How long after the injury is it too late?
There is no cut-off we would defend. Restorative gains are largest early, but compensatory work is useful at any point, and the emotional and autonomic side responds throughout.
What is the difference between restorative and compensatory work?
Restorative therapy uses repetitive, targeted challenge to reinforce, repair and physically rebuild weakened pathways. Compensatory therapy teaches practical workarounds and creates new neural detours around an area that cannot be restored. Most clients need both.
Where do we start?
A rehabilitation consultation. Tell us what happened and where you are now, and we will say honestly what is worth trying.
Take something home with you
Between sessions is where most of the work happens. These are the downloads and the journal we hand to clients, sold through our storefront.
My “Lived-Experience” Journal
Handwriting reaches memory and emotional processing along pathways typing does not. Shipped inside the US.
$14.95 USD
Package of 3 Neurofeedback Videos, 45 minute
The same three settings cut to 45 minutes, for a session that runs long or follows an autogenics track.
$49.95 USD
Adult Autogenics Audio
Twelve minutes of autogenics to run before a 33 minute session, which rounds the whole thing out to 45.
$9.95 USD
Prices in USD, as published in the storefront. Checkout, delivery and support for anything on this shelf run through store.cognitive-connections.com.
Start with a conversation, not a form
Tell us what happened and where you are now. Recovery after injury does not fit a self-directed intake, so this one begins with a person.