Patients with brain injuries often present with a variety of physical, cognitive, behavioral, communicative, and/or emotional needs. Following evaluation by the interdisciplinary team, a treatment plan is established to address these issues. Individuals and group therapies are utilized according to need. Brain Injury can be either of a traumatic or non-traumatic nature, such as stroke. The Brain Injury Program accepts patients in different stages of recovery including those who are emerging from a coma as well as individuals with higher levels of functioning who require ongoing medical management, nursing care and rehabilitation.

Services provided by the Brain Injury and Stroke Program:

• Physiatrists with special training and expertise in the management of brain injury.
• Team of dedicated rehabilitation professionals with expertise in all aspects of medical, and rehabilitative care of patients with types of brain injury.
• Direct access to all of the Mount Sinai Hospital's diagnostic and medical/surgical services, which permits admission of patients with unresolved clinical problems and prompt intervention for acute problems should they arise.
• State-of-the-art, inpatient rehabilitation facility with all therapy areas located on the same floor as the nursing beds so that patients spend more time IN therapy, and less time traveling TO therapy.
• Comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation therapy six days per week that emphasizes individual therapy as well as group sessions.
• Structured rehabilitation program for patients with concomitant Brain Injury/Spinal Cord Injury.
• Five-day/week outpatient day program, called Phase II, designed to facilitate community reintegration.
• Patient and family education and support groups
• Evaluation and treatment of vestibular and visual impairments
• Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)  Mentoring Program
• Pet assisted therapy—dogs helping people!
• Stroke club
• Opportunities to participate in a wide variety of research studies related to Traumatic Brain Injury.

The needs of people with brain injury can vary significantly from person to person. The Mount Sinai Brain Injury Program is superbly equipped to provide targeted, individualized therapy, backed by the resources of Mount Sinai Medical Center, in order to meet the complex and ever-changing needs of people with brain injuries.