Flatirons Cognitive Therapy — Cognitive Rehabilitation After TBI in Broomfield

Neuropsychological testing identifies what the TBI has affected: which cognitive domains show deficits, how severe they are, and how they translate to daily functional challenges. Cognitive rehabilitation is what happens next: targeted, evidence-based treatment that trains the brain to compensate for deficits and recover function.

Flatirons Cognitive Therapy in Broomfield provides the cognitive rehabilitation work that follows neuropsychological evaluation. When Cortex TBI's testing confirms attention deficits, memory impairment, or executive function difficulties from a car accident TBI, cognitive rehabilitation at Flatirons Cognitive Therapy translates that diagnosis into recovery.

Provider Contact

Website: flatironscognitivetherapy.com Phone: 720-310-3310

What Flatirons Cognitive Therapy Offers

Attention Training

Attention deficits, including difficulty sustaining focus, filtering distractors, and dividing attention between tasks, are among the most common consequences of TBI. They produce the "brain fog" that patients describe: the effortful concentration, the lost train of thought, the inability to multitask that was once automatic.

Cognitive rehabilitation for attention uses structured, progressive exercises that train the specific attention systems the testing identified as impaired. Attention Process Training (APT) protocols work from sustained attention through divided attention in graduated difficulty, building the cognitive capacity that TBI has disrupted.

Memory Rehabilitation

Memory deficits after TBI range from subtle word-finding difficulties to significant impairment in daily function: forgotten appointments, repeated questions, lost conversations. Cognitive rehabilitation addresses memory at multiple levels:

• Internal strategies: Memory encoding techniques that improve how information is stored: chunking, visualization, spaced retrieval, and elaborative encoding. These strategies compensate for encoding deficits by changing how information enters memory.
• External compensatory systems: Structured use of calendars, reminder systems, checklists, and other external tools that reduce reliance on impaired memory systems during recovery and beyond. Many patients find that well-designed external systems restore functional independence even when underlying memory deficits persist.
• Prospective memory training: Specific techniques for remembering future intentions, including appointments, medication, and tasks, which TBI affects disproportionately.

Executive Function Rehabilitation

Executive function, which encompasses planning, organizing, problem-solving, inhibiting impulses, and cognitive flexibility, is managed by the prefrontal cortex, which is particularly vulnerable to TBI. Executive deficits affect complex tasks: multi-step projects, work planning, managing competing demands, and adapting when plans don't work.

Rehabilitation uses goal management training, problem-solving protocols, and structured planning systems to develop the compensatory strategies that restore executive function for daily demands.

Return-to-Work Programs

For patients whose cognitive deficits affect occupational function, Flatirons Cognitive Therapy provides structured return-to-work programming: cognitive demands assessment, graduated return-to-work scheduling, workplace accommodation recommendations, and cognitive strategy training tailored to specific job requirements.

The goal is not just symptom reduction. It's functional restoration: returning to the work, activities, and daily responsibilities that TBI has disrupted.

Processing Speed Rehabilitation

Processing speed is often the most sensitive early indicator of TBI and one of the more persistent deficits. Slowed processing produces errors even when accuracy is eventual; tasks take longer, multitasking fails, and the cognitive effort required for normal activities increases.

Speed-of-processing training uses computerized and manual exercises targeting processing efficiency, with carryover training for real-world functional demands.

Location

Flatirons Cognitive Therapy 1777 S. Harrison St., Suite 900, Broomfield, CO 80021 (Accessible from CCC's Westminster and Aurora clinic areas)

When CCC Refers to Flatirons Cognitive Therapy

Referral to Flatirons Cognitive Therapy typically follows neuropsychological evaluation; the testing results guide the rehabilitation plan. Referral occurs when:

• Neuropsychological testing confirms cognitive deficits: Objective test scores document impairment in attention, memory, processing speed, or executive function that warrants targeted rehabilitation: not just symptom management, but specific cognitive training.
• Cognitive symptoms are affecting daily function: Memory failures causing missed appointments, attention deficits affecting work performance, executive difficulties disrupting planning and organization. Functional impact determines treatment urgency.
• Return-to-work or return-to-activity planning is needed: When cognitive demands of work or daily activity need to be matched against current cognitive capacity, and graduated return needs clinical support.
• Post-concussion syndrome has extended beyond expected recovery: When cognitive symptoms from a concussion persist beyond the typical recovery period, targeted rehabilitation accelerates recovery and prevents chronicity.

How Results Integrate with Your Care Plan

Cognitive rehabilitation at Flatirons Cognitive Therapy is not a separate track from your physical recovery. It's coordinated with your managing physician and, where applicable, your neurology and neuropsychology care. Progress notes return to your managing physician. Testing before and after rehabilitation tracks objective recovery and informs decisions about treatment duration and intensity.

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