Hurting your head can cause you lots of different problems and you will need all sorts of help from different professionals. Each professional has their own special area of interest. A speech therapist will help you to talk, a physiotherapist will help you to walk and a dietician is someone who will make sure you are getting enough to eat so your body can start to repair itself. You sometimes hear people talking about the ‘rehabilitation team’, this means all of those different people who are helping you to get better.

‘Going into rehab’ is a little bit different because it means you are going to a special rehabilitation centre. It isn’t the same as hospital although in some ways it is similar. Rehabilitation is helping people to improve. Hospital is for people who still need lots of attention from doctors and nurses.

See the ‘who’s who in hospital’ section if you want to know more about who is on the rehabilitation team.