greenfrog said <Better to give them accurate information *and* good advice about promoting recovery. >

The accurate information would correctly be "We don't know when you will recover." Those who do not spontaneously recover within the first 6 weeks are left in a no-mans land of no valid information. As for good PCS advice coming from most doctors, It ain't gonna happen. Low stress and good rest are about as good as it gets. Most don't ever recommend nutritional improvements.

Hundreds of research studies have been done to find any commonalities regarding prolonged PCS. The only conclusion they come to is that there is no rhyme or reason to PCS recovery statistics. Further, they can find no correlation between recovery and intensity of the head impact.

There are two ways prolonged symptoms and recovery are discussed. Some will use the one year as a threshold. Others simply state the obvious: The longer symptoms persist, the greater the chance that they will be permanent or at least very long term.

A challenge to long term studies is that the subjects drop off the radar from a medical records perspective. Doctors get tired of hearing their complaints so they either stop complaining and/or seeing that doctor or the doctors make minimal records of those complaints. Keep putting the patient off and they eventually go away.