New Delhi, Aug 10 - With 125,000 people becoming disabled annually due to traumatic brain injuries suffered in road accidents, experts Monday emphasised that India needs to train healthcare professionals in providing neuro rehabilitation care to patients.

'There has been an alarming increase in number of road accidents in the country in the past few years and we need to prepare our doctors, paramedics and health care workers to handle traumatic brain injury patients and post rehabilitation,' said Rajendra Prasad, executive director, Indian Head Injury Foundation (IHIF).

Prasad was speaking at the first international workshop on neuro-rehabilitation after traumatic brain injury being conducted at Apollo Hospital here.

According to Prasad, neuro rehabilitation is a medical process which aims to aid recovery from a nervous system injury, and to minimise or compensate for any functional alterations resulting from it.

'Neuro rehabilitation is a concept famous in western countries like the US and UK.