How can we live with a brain injury, damaged in an accident? How can one learn to walk, speak, reason, interact with others when we coming out of coma? How to rehabilitate a brain that no longer works as before? In short, is one still himself after such an ordeal? These are the questions that face every day brain-damaged people and therapists who accompany them. Together they must find ways to circumvent the problems caused by brain injury. Painstaking work, which requires on both sides patience and, above all, a lot of courage.

A close look into dysphasia, through interviews with parents, teachers, doctors, speech therapists (Marc Monfort, Gisèle Lovenfosse,...). A documentary exclusively made as a bonus feature on THE COLOR OF WORDS DVD, which gives all the answers to the most frequent questions : diagnosis, definition, treatment, evolution, education, associate disorders, family life.

Two-part film dealing with the integration problem of mental, adult, serious handicapped people in ordinary working environment in Genoa. The first - French - part evokes by means of examples the philosophy implying the challenge which the integration of more than 350 mental handicapped people has been representing for ten years. The second - Italian - part tries to evoke, through the playing of an actor and texts by Samuel Beckett, the mental universe of integrated handicapped people ...

Our goal is to inform and make people sensitive about an unknown yet fascinating trouble : aphasia. This handicap of language is the result of a cerebral lesion, more often with vascular origins. In France, 200.000 persons are aphasic. Intelligent though unintelligible, the aphasic person can not communicate normally. This movie is intended for those who mix with aphasic persons or those who will.

After a short historical summary, we prove that a visually disabled person is a human being like everybody else.

This 20 minute film shows aspects of heroin substitution treatment; intended for doctors, pharmacists and all those interested in drug addiction. At the end of the sequences, we hear the personal experiences of 2 young heroin addicts who have undergone substitution treatment during several months, followed by the evidence of doctors and a pharmacist who explain the manner by which the health care providers have started these new treatments. The instructional scenarios explain the treatment of substitution, the framework surrounding patient care both in the city and in a specialized center.

The RFR program is the french model of the active management of chronic back pain. The objective is the restoration of normal function of the trunk through a deconditioning treatment by a multidisciplinary team. Psychological repercussions and the socioprofessional difficulties are dealt with at the same time as treatment. This new approach guided by evaluations is much more efficient than the simple treatment of pain which has a well known subjective character.

Serious ligamentous injuries of the knee are increasing and frequently require surgical treatment. Designed for patients undergoing ACL repair, this film illustrates the progressive steps of rehabilitation and demonstrates reference points by which to measure individual progress. It provides a systematic review of the exercises learned in physiotherapy and shows how to adapt them at home. The goal of this film is to facilitate recuperation in harmony with the healing process and to garantee a return to sporting activity in secure conditions.

A therapeutical and educational management for the Cerebral Palsy child, based on the concept of conductive education.

A strange little animated character leads us through the steps of a personalized reeducation of the patient suffering from vascular diseases, displaying various techniques proposed by the rehabilitation center.