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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: England, GB
Posts: 194
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: England, GB
Posts: 194
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You may find this helpful.........
I was sent to a 'neuro otology physiotherapist'.
She explained that if you have been knocked out, or received a severe hit to the head that you may badly damage your inner ear. What then happens is the body begins to over compensate the lack of balance by using your vision.
This explains constant unsteadiness, falling over, visual disturbances, headaches, the inability to read or watch tv for long periods etc....
So the solution is to retrain the brain.
How?
You put a large mark on a plain wall at sitting eye level and slowly turn your head left to right, keeping your eye on the mark all the time. You work up from 4 turns, 3x/day to 60 turns, 3x/day.
Then you do the same exercise but head up and down.
The other exercise is standing in the corner of a room with your back to the wall for support and close your eyes, let go of the wall until you fall and build up the time period you can do this.
Then the progress from that is the same exercise but with one foot in front of the other.
So far its not going well because I have not really moved my neck since July so it's v painful and makes me sick.
She said if this makes you feel sick for longer than 20 mins then cut down to 1 turn and build slowly.
Hope this helps someone!!
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I am a 36 yr old female who has played football, as a hobby, for 13 yrs. In July 2012, during a game I was slammed to the floor by two angry guys who hit into me so hard that one of them broke their ribs.
This knocked me back onto hard ground leaving me unconscious. I awoke to chronic head and neck pain, sickness and the inability to see or balance.
The paramedics made me walk to the ambulance, instead of placing me on a spinal board, where I was taken to the ER. I was hospitalised with suspected brain hemorrhage for 1 week, then on complete bed rest for 1 month, in a wheelchair for 2 months.
I have been left with PCS, moderate constant head pain, little short term memory, no memory of the accident, balance and sight problems, depression and exhaustion.
The worst problem is collapsing regularly. This has finally been diagnosed as Hemiplegic Migraines , these cause my brain to regularly shut down when I am tired and I then feel the full effects of a stroke (without the bleed on the brain!!) of which the symptoms last 2-4 days.
I have had 6 CT's, 2 MRI's and am under 3 specialists.
I believe everyday is one more towards improvement. Mainly I believe in the power of acceptance not the weakness of complacency or resignation.
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