Traumatic Brain Anatomy Case Study
EVALUATION
Client Name: Ingrid
Age: 45
Diagnosis: Traumatic Brain Injury
Medical/Surgical History: Spent weeks at acute care hospital before admission to inpatient rehabilitation facility.
Occupational Profile Ingrid was a social worker, wife, and mother who live in a two story colonial home with her husband and two daughters, aged 8 and 15 years old. She was active in the school of her children, serving on committees and volunteering to read in the classroom. In addition, she attended to church habitually, even though her husband did not accompany her. Her interests included swimming, snorkeling, and hiking, based on previous family vacations. Not only was she close to her immediate family, but also with her college friends living throughout …show more content…
When Ingrid becomes discharged from the inpatient facility, her family will receive education and training on how to properly assist Ingrid with transfers and independent walking in various household locations, such as the bedroom, bathroom and kitchen. This will include home modifications, assistive devices, and adaptive technologies, such as grab bars placed in the bathroom and a stair transport chair designed to help maintain Ingrid’s sitting posture, as a means to maximize her occupational performance and enhance her safety. This intervention is suitable with the rehabilitative frame of reference because it helps Ingrid maintain her current abilities through the use of compensatory strategies. Although occupational therapy services serve as a positive factor in the recovery for clients with traumatic brain injury, 50% of clients unable to walk and 37% of clients were only able to walk up stairs in a house, proving that the rehabilitative frame of reference is apt for this intervention (Haffejee, Ntsiea, & Mudzi,
Client Name: Ingrid
Age: 45
Diagnosis: Traumatic Brain Injury
Medical/Surgical History: Spent weeks at acute care hospital before admission to inpatient rehabilitation facility.
Occupational Profile Ingrid was a social worker, wife, and mother who live in a two story colonial home with her husband and two daughters, aged 8 and 15 years old. She was active in the school of her children, serving on committees and volunteering to read in the classroom. In addition, she attended to church habitually, even though her husband did not accompany her. Her interests included swimming, snorkeling, and hiking, based on previous family vacations. Not only was she close to her immediate family, but also with her college friends living throughout …show more content…
When Ingrid becomes discharged from the inpatient facility, her family will receive education and training on how to properly assist Ingrid with transfers and independent walking in various household locations, such as the bedroom, bathroom and kitchen. This will include home modifications, assistive devices, and adaptive technologies, such as grab bars placed in the bathroom and a stair transport chair designed to help maintain Ingrid’s sitting posture, as a means to maximize her occupational performance and enhance her safety. This intervention is suitable with the rehabilitative frame of reference because it helps Ingrid maintain her current abilities through the use of compensatory strategies. Although occupational therapy services serve as a positive factor in the recovery for clients with traumatic brain injury, 50% of clients unable to walk and 37% of clients were only able to walk up stairs in a house, proving that the rehabilitative frame of reference is apt for this intervention (Haffejee, Ntsiea, & Mudzi,