What training informs Dr. George’s rehabilitation approach?

My home discipline is rehabilitation, not any one of the specialties I draw tools from. For more than 20 years I have practiced and taught functional neurology. Along the way I trained as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner and a family nurse practitioner, certified as a brain injury specialist and a dementia care specialist, worked in electrodiagnostics and intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring, and trained in apheresis medicine.

I cross-trained because the people who come to us rarely have one problem. An injury to the nervous system can change mood, sleep, memory, pain and a person’s sense of safety, and those pieces tend to fall between neurology, rehabilitation, pain care and psychiatry. Training across those fields lets me see how the pieces connect. It is also why our clinical team is cross-trained.

Neuregen’s job starts where other specialties leave off. Neurology, psychiatry, immunology, endocrinology and pain medicine each diagnose and treat their piece of a complex case. The question I ask is different: across the seven systems that have to work together for recovery, what is still standing in the way, and in what order should it be addressed? That is a rehabilitation question.

Sometimes the answer is more of what your other clinicians are already doing, sequenced differently. Sometimes it means tools outside a typical specialty scope. The rule is the same either way: start with the simplest, lowest-risk step that can move things forward, and escalate only when the evidence and your progress support it.