What is Brain Injury Medicine?
Brain Injury Medicine (BIM) is a subspecialty of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (Physiatry) that focus on the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and management of individuals with varying severity levels of brain injury. Physiatrists practicing in the domain of BIM deal with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of related medical, physical, psychosocial, and vocational disabilities and complications during the lifetime of a patient.
BIM specialists will help with many disorders contributing to BIM including traumatic brain injury, stroke, CNS neoplasms, anoxic brain injury, demyelinating diseases and other brain disorders. The best brain injury medicine books that specialists as well as the fellows training in this domain read from are:
Textbook of Traumatic Brain Injury
