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Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

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 * Physical therapy


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 * Acquired brain injury patients experience memory loss that may or may not effect ones motor skills. The rehabilitation technique used for acquired brain injuries does not follow a specific approach. This is because the damage can target different different parts of the brain that are responsible for cognitive, physical, emotional, or behavioral functioning. When damaged, physical therapy can be used to rehabilitate and bring back an individuals gross and fine motor skills, balance, coordination, strength as well as improving ones sensory and cognitive processing.


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 * Acquired brain injury

Option 2

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 * Rehabilitation (neuropsychology)


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 * Rehabilitation of receptive and perception includes retraining the nerve pathways/connections in order to retrieve and ameliorate the neurocognitive functioning that has been unfortunately lost by disease or an injury. As proven by many doctors and professionals, rehabilitation is used to treat attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), concussion, and spinal cord injury. Rehabilitation is important because it helps ones body/memory to start recovering from what they have experienced and slowly improve. Having cognitive rehabilitation therapy is very beneficial for patients with brain injuries because it serves as such an important tool, that ultimately provides therapy of several cognitive deficits.


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Option 3

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 * Rehabilitation psychology


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 * This area of psychology is aimed to improve the deficits of individuals who have acquired a chronic health condition, injury, or disability. The assessment and treatment entail an enhancement in the following areas: cognitive, behavioral, psychological, psychosocial and etc. This holistic approach offers individualized treatment approaches that take into factors that may enhance or impede on one's progress. Within a clinical setting, the rehabilitation psychologist work to eliminate any physical or personal barriers to ultimately rehabilitate the individual back into their community.


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Option 4

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 * Physical medicine and rehabilitation


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 * Physical medicine and rehabilitation, also known as physiatry is found to be very common and used a lot by athletes due to their body always being active. This type of medicine and treatment is aimed to assist people with physical impairments/disabilities. These range from severe muscle pain, strokes, and brain injuries. In order for these serious conditions to be treated properly, it needs to be seen by a physiatrist. Physiatrists have studied this field are focused to help patients with chronic pain with nonsurgical treatments for the muscleloskeletal system. The main purpose of physical medicine and rehabilitation is to help a person operate ideally with the proper restrictions placed on them by a disabled/imparied process to make them slowly recover.


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