APA Citation for Ted Talk Video:
Barrett, A. M. [Tedx Talks]. (2016, August 1). A Vision of Brain Injury Rehabilitation [Video File]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ-OBXTA5AE
I chose to do my 3rd Neuro Note on this Ted Talk video because the lecturer talks about TBIs and strokes, and how such injuries to the brain can lead to spatial neglect, which can cause serious complications in the rehabilitation period for a person who has suffered an injury to their brain. I chose to do this because one of my good friends in high school was a competitive lacrosse and field hockey player. Despite physical contact being prohibited, she still suffered multiple hits to the head in both sports. Because of this, she was left was permanent eyesight problems. One of my other good friends received a concussion and was taking out of the our rowing program for months because her brain was healing fast enough to allow her to get back into the sport. In all this, I watched and saw what how intimately a person's life can be effected by brain injuries.
In this video, A.M. Barrett, a cognitive neurologist, gives a talk on brain injuries, specifically TBIs and strokes and how both can cause spatial neglect in a person who has suffered from either. She pulls up pictures of patients who cannot complete things on their left side, as the injury was to their right hemisphere, therefore everything on their left side has been effected. She goes on to explain how such spatial neglect can cause serious delay on a person's rehabilitation, as well as dramatically increase their risk of falls. She then proceeds to discuss a new, innovative, yet cheap method in rehabilitation for those with spatial neglect. She called it the prism adaptation, which is a pair of goggles with prisms in each lens, with the left side of each lens being higher than the right sides. This treatment, as she explained in the video, has been shown to increase a patient's independence by helping them regain the spatial awareness that they had lost post-injury. She talked about how not many hospitals or rehab clinics use this type of treatment, but hopes that they will in the future.
As future occupational therapists, I think this video is important because we will eventually work with clients who have suffered from TBIs or strokes, and with this treatment because affordable, as well as easy to use and train other therapists with, I think advocating for this will become a necessity if we want to see clients have more independence in the long run.
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