ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we ask you, the reader, to suspend your attachments to the current approach to inpatient rehabilitation; we also ask that you suspend your commitment to incremental change as the only realistic opportunity for improving the care and treatment of persons with traumatic injuries that require inpatient rehabilitation. These requests respect the attachments that providers, advocates, and researchers have to the current approach to traumatic injuries rehabilitation and recognize the value of deliberate, evidence-based change in the ways in which rehabilitation is understood, conducted, organized, and financed. Nevertheless, we ask you to take a leap with us into a completely different way of approaching this type of rehabilitation in the hopes that fresh perspective and the articulation of large-scale change will foster productive dialogue about its future and the best ways to meet the needs of those who require its services.
