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Head Injury (Overview (Approx. 150 per 100,000 admitted to hospital each…

- - - - Lying
        
        Prevention of wind-sweeping
        
        Providing relief of lower limb extensor spasm
        
        Reduce adductor spasm
        
        Building stable support
      - Seating
        
        Provide additional support where required
        
        Pressure cushions
        
        Align and stabilize body segments relative to self and chair
    - - Orthotics and gait
        
        Evidence suggests immediate kinematic and spatiotemporal improvements in gait
        
        Most common prescribed splints to improve gait for physical impairments post head injury
        
        Either off shelf of custom
- - - - Language, comprehension or meaningful expression
      - Sustained purposeful or voluntary behaviours, either spontaneous or in response to a stimuli
      - awareness of self or environment or the ability to interact with others
    - - Sleep/wake cycle
      - Occasional non-purposeful movements
      - Reflexes (brainstem, oral/facial, grasp)
      - Reflexive posturing or withdrawal from painful stimuli
- - - - Sheered force trauma to brain
        
        influcx of sodium and calcium ions causing swelling in brain