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Old 03-07-2014, 05:00 PM
k8eschm8e k8eschm8e is offline
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For my son that was a good approach, read a bit take a break, and if you have to start off only at 10, that is fine. She just really needs to listen to her brain and take it easy, not to do too much, and for everyone that "too much" varies. My son can read for longer periods of time now, at first that was a challenge as well, it was hard for him being an avid reader, but let her know that it's just going to take time, little by little. Rests in between are very important. Like I said, for some reason the tv never bothered my son, but the comp was another issue. We eased him back into everything that made him symptomatic. There was even a time he couldn't stand in the halls during passing time, so what we did at school while easing him back was to have him leave his class 10 min early, go to the nurses office and go to his next class 10 min later, which was hard for him, because at that point he was still symptomatic and forgetful as well. Slow and steady, she will know when she needs to back off, and hopefully she will listen to her symptoms and allow herself to be guided by what she can do and not push it. My son would say he could almost feel his symptoms coming on/getting worse, it is good to back off when this happens. It is a very very very slow process. I know people who have cleared at 3 mo, 6 mo, 12mo and 2 yrs. (My son still isn't fully healed and we are at the 5 mo mark--but he is able to read, use comp, study for tests, write reports and is functioning fully in school-- he stays away from heavy lifting though, he tried and it made him very dizzy, so luckily he made the decision to not try that again at this point). We have tried several different things, acupuncture, chiropractic neurology, pt, hearing and balance, massage, speech therapy, and as we go through this the more that I learn is that it seems to boil down to time and letting the brain heal and do it's thing on it's own... slowly but surely my sons brain has been healing itself little by little, and i see it. He is doing some pt, the rotation on his neck is still not full and his posture is off (he played football) i just got him back into it last week, his neck is tight and he carries himself incorrectly (i believe its from the football blows) So we are straightening him out there. I am just happy that he is out of the constant headache state so his brain can rest a bit. Hold on to the small things, they are really huge in reality.
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