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The "Whatever It Takes" Model for Brain Injury Recovery

James Malec, PhD
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Holistic rehab is like the "whatever it takes" model. Balance issues may need to be treated by a PT and depression by a psychologist, but those therapies overlap for the outcome of the whole person.

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Posted on BrainLine November 1, 2012.

Produced by Victoria Tilney McDonough and Erica Queen, BrainLine, and Dan Edblom.

About the author: James Malec, PhD

James Malec, PhD, is professor and research director in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Indiana University School of Medicine and the Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana. He is a professor emeritus of psychology at the Mayo Clinic.

James Malec