At NeuronUP the word neurorrehabilitation is heard and read many times each day. But, both on the Internet and in specialized manuals, it appears written in various ways: with a single r (neurorehabilitation), with two rs, separated by a hyphen: neuro-rehabilitation…
In fact it is easy for Google to correct the term for us and recommend writing neurorehabilitation. It even differentiates the terms with an accent and without an accent (neurorrehabilitation vs neurorrehabilitacion) and shows different results depending on how we write it.
The RAE gives us the solution: neurorrehabilitation or neurorehabilitation
Therefore, we consulted the reference institution in linguistic matters: the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE), which confirmed that its correct spelling is as we present in this post: the two words together and with two r’s.
“It is written neurorrehabilitation. In an intervocalic position, as inautorrecambio, the digraph rr must always be written”.
After this clarification from the RAE, we no longer have an excuse to write it incorrectly.
What is neurorrehabilitation?
It is a therapeutic intervention focused on stimulating the nervous system so that it forms new neural connections after a neurological injury.
New research in different areas has provided a better understanding of brain functioning, as well as of the brain’s possibilities for recovery or modification thanks to the neuroplasticity.
Neuroplasticity, which is the potential the brain has to modify and adapt in response to experience, to chemicals, to hormones or to injuries. This ability of the brain to reorganize itself, creating and strengthening neural connections, is the key to neurorrehabilitation. The system is capable of activating neuroplastic systems although these have their limits. Because of this, great importance is currently placed on providing effective rehabilitation in cases of brain injury or appropriate stimulation to slow the cognitive decline characteristic of some pathologies.
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