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11-02-2012 20:40 Filling the gap in spinal cord injury recovery treatment Often patients care is based on compensatory strategies and the training provided is to get the patient and family members taught to care for the patient after discharge from the hospital in the fastest manner possible. For example, traditional acute therapy programs help patients become as independent "as possible" before insurance or funding runs out. Many patients with a high spinal cord injury are discharged within weeks of their injury. Neurological injuries and disorders take time to attain maximum function and regain lost abilities. In traditional outpatient physical therapy programs, facilities often based services on the patient's insurance benefits. Due to the slow return on treatment for neurological disorders and injuries, outpatient therapy programs are often pushed by insurance companies to terminate services because funding will not be provided for slow gains in progress. Available insurance benefits, however, have no correlation to a patient's ability to improve. As insurance and medical benefits become exhausted, many outpatient therapists are referring their patients to training facilities like Neuroxcel® that offer comprehensive, activity-based strength training with state-of-the-art gait strengthening equipment and modalities.

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