Rehabilitation may be a long and arduous journey but it is greatly beneficial to a newly-disabled person. Regardless of the cause of disability – it could be a spinal cord injury, a serious car accident, a freak accident, a brain tumour, brain aneurysm or a stroke – the consequences are often far-reaching.
A newly disabled person may suddenly find that he has lost control over his limbs, suffer bladder and bowel dysfunction or speech impairment and cognitive problems. Most are unprepared for this sudden change. Fear, frustration and despair can set in easily.