“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Therapy sessions can range anywhere from $85 – $400 per hour. Medicaid, for example, is only willing to cover three therapy sessions a year, despite the fact that neurological injury survivors need dozens upon dozens of therapy sessions per year. Because people with disabilities tend to have a very sedentary lifestyle, exercising the body in therapy is even vital for maintaining one’s heart health. Paying for therapy out-of-pocket can put an impossible burden on families along with the many hospital bills, pricey home modifications and expensive accessibility equipment that all might be necessary following a neurological injury. Apart from being emotionally and physically challenging, these injuries are insanely expensive.
Spinal cord injuries primarily affect young adults (National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center)
Teenagers, young adults and people over 75 are more likely to suffer from traumatic brain injury (CDC)
Rehabilitation programs for brain injury can cost anywhere from $600 to $8,000 per day (USA TODAY)
The lifetime cost of an average stroke in the elderly is estimated to be up to $228,030 (NIH)
The estimated lifetime cost for spinal cord injury is $500,000–more than $3 million, depending on injury severity (CDC)
Insurance companies define physical therapy as a speciality that comes with a higher co-pay (NY Daily News)
