About two years ago my son, Ben, fell backwards at school and hit his head. He went to the doctor. The doctor thought he had a concussion and we kept him home.
Ben was dizzy. He had trouble walking. We went through a lot of emotional trauma before he started to recover.
Ben was a competitive gymnast at that time. He was out of gymnastics for over two months. When he was getting ready to return he practiced some-- Ben was unable to do a handstand without falling over. He believed he was handstanding perfectly straight when he was at actually handstanding at quite an angle. Clearly, there had been damage. Just as clearly, over time, he recovered.
My Master's degree is in neurophysiology so I have perhaps a better acquaintance than most with the brain's complexity. I'm not going to go deeply into the trauma we went through-- what I consider some fairly serious mis-diagnosis by the specialist we went to. But I use it to illustrate a point: traumatic brain injury is not trivial.
So it is with some happiness that I direct the reader of this blog to some very interesting data and a new possible treatment for such injuries in this article.
Ben recovered completely both the normal actions and cognition of his age along with his gymnastics ability. He has since left gymnastics and pursues judo where he looks forward to cleaning his old man's clock.
His old man is very proud.
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