Hello,

I would need a list of anything that supports the healing, psychologically and physically.
Just how ot is named and one sentence what I can expect.

Nobody can suggest what you can expect with any accuracy. Everyone's experience is different. Some are night and day different. You just need to be open to the tasks and exercises the various therapies involve.

OT means Occupational Therapy. It focuses on developing skills that allow one to return to normal life functions. PT Physical Therapy focuses on helping the body heal. OT helps you learn how to get the job (occupation) done. It can include learning work-arounds or new ways to do something.

The various therapies are specific to the dysfunction diagnoses. Not everyone needs all of them and some don't need many at all. The therapist should be able to determine what you need. In some cases, they will try a therapy to see if it leads to improvements. If there are no improvements, they may then consider the therapy was not needed. Unfortunately, they get paid either way.

I ve chosen the wrong words. I want to.know.what they are for and not what I can expect.

I will discuss every therapy with a doctor. I just wanted a list that we can go through. Not every doctor might now all of them

I would suggest the upper cervical care first ( check and treatment if needed)
info - www.upcspine.com

Can't build a good house if foundation is crooked..IMO

If neck pain - treatment for that.

Your typo made me think you were asking specifically about ot. Looking back, I guess you meant to type 'it' not ot 'Just how ot is named'

OT, Occupational Therapy, explained above
PT, Physical Therapy, explained above
ST, Speech Therapy, works with verbal expressive skills, word finding, memory skills and more.

VT, Vestibular Therapy, works with balance issues
Behavioral/occupational psychology, helps one work with job tasks and job environments/relationships
NP, Neuro-Psychologist, looks at how the cognitive, memory, executive and motor functions are working.
NPA, NeuroPysch Assessment, testing system used by NP to measure the above functions.
Behavioral Optometry, looks at how the brain is focusing and converging the eyes and processing visual images

There are a few more therapy professions. Hopefully, others who have used them will post explanations.

A Physiatrist MD (Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation) is usually best at directing diagnostics and care to these various specialties. Family practice and neuro docs do not refer as often.

I strongly believe this topic could make a very useful and practical "sticky."

I know that a list such as the one Mark just provided would have helped me immensely back when I first suffered my injury 9 long months ago. I think the admins should seriously consider this idea.

Mapping out the recovery from a brain injury is almost just as difficult as the recovery itself, especially when you have to do all the research on specialists with a compromised brain and by yourself.

There is no accepted treatment for PCS. The least we can do is provide newly diagnosed people with ideas for what to seek in their care from our experiences and trials. Each PCS sufferer will have different needs but a conprehensive list of the different types of specialists and their different descriptions would be beneficial for most new to the condition.