Our multidisciplinary approach ensures that your child receives care that starts in the intensive care unit and continues recovery beyond their hospital discharge. Located at the Pediatric Rehabilitation Center, your child will see three specialists focused on maximizing recovery after neurologic injury. The BRAIN clinic can also connect families to support through rehabilitation therapies, social work, case management, and our experienced nurse to ensure we are addressing your child’s recovery needs across all aspects of life after an ICU stay.

Our clinic is designed to care for infants and children who recently experienced a serious neurologic condition requiring hospitalization in an intensive care unit.

Example conditions may include, but are not limited to:

• Traumatic brain injury
• Stroke
• Brain bleeds
• Blood vessel malformations impacting the brain
• Infection of the brain or spinal cord
• Neuropathy or myopathy from critical illness
• Autoimmune encephalitis
• Brain injury from cardiac arrest
• Neonatal hypoxic-ischemic brain injury
• Demyelinating disease
• Disorders of consciousness
• Guillain-Barre Syndrome
• Seizures including status epilepticus
• Spinal cord injury
• Genetic and metabolic disorders impacting the brain

Referrals to the clinic usually come from the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital care team. Outside referrals should be marked “BRAIN clinic” and sent to Pediatric PM&R and Neuropsychology. Patients and families should expect to spend about two hours at this appointment.