As a desperate mom im reaching out to you for help… Bills, bills, bills. move his legs but not on command. I have no idea how to help myself or do things the right way. Hi, my father recently having issues with putting words, forgets little chores like his password, his own salaray. . As someone who woke from a coma with serious head injuries, after a week at 16 and was normal- my first memory was of having no hair and the Neurosurgeon handing me a pen and paper to write down the names of everyone I knew and I could – quite unusual i gather when you have had bone removed from bth sides of your brain . Btw…..books with lengthy reading are of little help right now because he cant retain….excercises perhaps?? This can include taking notes to make up for short-term memory loss or taking classes on how to approach the otherwise daunting task of rehab and therapy. If an individual survives brain damage, the brain has a remarkable ability to adapt. Coincidence? I know he’s there, I just don’t know how to reach him. Just not all the way yet. Comment by Chris Geagley — December 26, 2019 @ 9:59 PM. Thank you for the simplicity of the most complicated part of our bodies. When this happens, it places a significant strain on the injured party and their loved ones. Thank you for a brilliant post xxoo, WoW Suzie, you do have quite a remarkable story. What you put in your mouth has everything to do with what goes on in your head –and your diet is even more important when your brain is compromised. Will that decrease your IQ? What has happen to me I can remember everything but I feel slow around people I’m always so inspired by your story, I hope it will help many others. First and foremost, you should protect yourself from injuring your brain again. Brain healing is the process that occurs after the brain has been damaged. For example, fish-derived omega-3 fatty acids have been shown to improve cognition, plasticity, and recovery of neurons after traumatic brain injury. I feel weakness in my whole right hand and i also feel very anxious about my future like marriage etc, Comment by Hema Kanojia — October 21, 2018 @ 10:29 AM. I have lost the ability to find my balance! From a neuroscientific perspective, imagining an act and doing it are not all that different. I have been having severe Pain in the middle part of my head. But for few months maybe 5 or 6 to be exact he started having this issue. Comment by Tracey Mullen — January 19, 2017 @ 9:48 AM. scientific evidence proving that just visualizing moving a muscle strengthens and changes it, The Influence of Diet and Physical Activity on Brain Repair and Neurosurgical Outcome, 10 foods for riding the obligatory brain injury roller-coaster. I just hope it doesnt get worse, its alot too handle. What do the experts think, should my brain heal after quitting weed? I am also very athletic, but now feel like I have nothing and that my life has fallen apart. How does an injury to the spinal cord affect the nerves? He wants yo study for his LCDC but his confidence is liw because he cannot retain information. TBIs contribute to about 30 percent of all injury deaths. It’s different for everyone. – What To Expect In The Long Term? Without any real knowledge of what the specific measures mean, graphs visually show you how you performed. However, in some cases, uninjured parts of the brain are able to take over or compensate for injured parts, or the brain learns to re-route information around the damaged areas. Right after the injury, my brain would just shut down, and I would have to nap several times a day. I know the jury is also still out on whether computer brain training works. The machines were challenging but not nearly as hard as the group classes. I then would allow myself to sleep as much as I felt like I needed to – sometimes as much as 16 hours a day. Your email address will not be published. The human brain has a remarkable ability to adapt and heal, and this is great news to many of the thousands of people who suffer traumatic brain injuries in the United States each year. There is a device, called Brain Gauge, which gives you a quantified measure of your brain’s health and evidence that what you are doing is helping your brain.