Bed rest and leisure may not be good advice for people injured brain. The study showed that if a person immediately returns to work, he recovers faster.
Traditionally, patients who received brain injuries, doctors recommend rest or even bed rest. Often they are given hospital for a few days so they were able to recover faster. However, neurologists at Columbia University found that if victims of brain injuries from returning to work and normal life, it stimulates faster recovery. Such findings are received on the basis of observations of laboratory mice. Rodents, which almost immediately returned to normal activity recovered faster and more fully, than those who were given rest.
The results of this study are completely contrary to all existing norms of treatment and what medicine knows about the recovery of the brain. However, they can lead to the development of new methods of rehabilitation treatment that promotes stimulation of the brain, and not his rest. Until recently it was assumed that prolonged periods of rest of the brain are key to the process of recovery, but now this view is revised.
However, the study authors emphasize that the results of observations of laboratory mice you can’t just move on man. Therefore, in the future neurologists need to assess the effectiveness of tactics of recovery after injuries of the brain in a large group of people. (READ MORE)