Abstract
Appropriate care and management strategies for low level patients after traumatic brain injury are at best controversial. Management issues tend to be confounded by inconsistencies in the neurorehabilitation nomenclature; misunderstandings regarding “normal” neurological recovery patterns after severe brain injury; inconsistencies or lack of appropriate functional measures; and inadequate knowledge pertaining to scientifically sound practices for neuromedical assessment and management of this special patient population. This article attempts to clarify issues pertaining to the state-of-the-art aspects of “coma stimulation” and the neuromedical recovery and management of low level patients with brain injury.
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