Has anyone recovered from a brain injury.?

Answer 1

yes, I work with a brain injury program.....most people do improve some and some actually do make full recoveries....it really depends on the injury and the individual situation

Answer 2

I have recovered perhaps 95% of the abilities I had prior to my brain injury. I'll never taste anything on the right side of my mouth again, and the hemiparesis and aphasia will always be present to the degree they are now, as well as the double vision I have at visual extremes. I do not drive because my peripheral attention is lacking (I focus too intently on that which is in front of me- I learn and teach the same way). It will always take me a little bit longer to master a new task, but I retain knowledge as well as I did once I get past the short-term stumbling block.
Every brain injury is different, of course, and every individual's recovery is different.
No one ever recovers 100 percent from a brain injury, as brain cells do not reproduce, but it's amazing what tasks the brain can relearn.

Answer 3

Blood clot.
Brain injury can be fun if you don't mind being a little bit dead.
Seven years ago I couldn't move or even feel everything in the left side of my body. Seemingly endless months of aggressive therapy made it possible for me to walk, talk, eat....
A couple of interesting misconceptions about brain injury:
1. It is common belief that the majority of recovery occurs in the first year, with improvement plateauing after that point. Don't buy it.
2. Brain injury is permanent. That is, they used to believe that brain cells were incapable of repair and regeneration. Huh. Well, more recent findings have noted that the brain, among many other organs in the body, DOES contain adult stem cells, which are programmed to migrate to injured areas and do the stem cell thing....
Every day is therapy.
Conditions improve with EFFORT.
Quick edit: Took me a while, but now I can actually use a Q-tip with my affected hand without fear of further brain injury :)

Answer 4

Im sure ther are exceptions to the rule, yes.
like people as in the movie "HENRY" with Harrison Ford. The personality changes but i think to a degree there can be some recoerability.
some brain injuries however, are never repairable or recoverable. the brain is the most vulnerable part of the body, and the one that hs all commands for our body unfutunately .

i dont mean to sound drastic but i did study about the brain in college, it was a pre medical class.

thats why its so important that for example troops wear excellent helpmets so their brains are saved from injury. because you can loose an arm or leg but still think and have all yr brain. but if you loose something or some partof yr brain it will affect something physically.

Im sorry to hear this question. I hope you are ok.
But God heals dont forget this.

And I think oyu should ask a professional in neurology about yoru particular case.

Answer 5

i myself have not recovered from a brain injury, but i haven helped numerous people recover. IT IS POSSIBLE TO RECOVER. you need to understand, recovery does not always mean you will be exactly like you were before. Brain injury is a life changing event, so you will automatically be different than before. All I can tell you is make the changes positive in your life. Be proud of ALL of your accomplishments!! And NEVER give up.

Answer 6

Yes, a few years ago I stoped a man from beating up a girl. After I got him down and he chilled(so I thought) I started to leave, just as I reached the doorway, he came up from behind with a pick axe handle and caved in the back of my skull, toof off my ear. I woke up a few day later in the brain injury ward at the local hospital, and now my life is in spins.

Answer 7

yes, some do, if you know someone in a semicomatose state tape record friends and family talking ,and have them say the persons name, this actually is one activity that increases brain wave activity, there is no rhyme or reason why some wake up and get better and others do not

Answer 8

My uncle was shot in the head and survived. He could not talk for a while, but now 12 years later he is perfect. A true miracle. they said he would never make it. He was in a comma for 3 months.

Answer 9

Got a steel plate in my head when I was 17. Am now 53. No problems

Answer 10

Yes. Some people were completely normal after treatment.