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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Phoenix AZ
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Location: Phoenix AZ
Posts: 531
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Hi Tom, thanks for the update, sounds as if you have found a good team with your chiropractor, neurologist and neuropsychologist. Overall sounds like your neuropsych evaluation went pretty well. The fact that some deficits exist will help them tailor your therapies to be most effective.
Your recommendations sound similar to the ones I was given. Even while still in a wheelchair in the hospital they had me doing both cardio and weight training exercise. By cognitive therapy, is this with a speech pathology therapist? I always kind of wondered why they call them speech therapists as they do so much more than that.
Maybe they have researched and determined that reading improves memory, I tried to read a lot early on but I didn’t retain much, now that deficit seems to have resolved.
Congratulations on your progress and thanks for checking in.
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What Happened: On November 29, 2010, I was walking across the street and was hit by a light rail commuter train. Result was a severe traumatic brain injury and multiple fractures (skull, pelvis, ribs). Total hospital stay was two months, one in ICU followed by an additional month in neuro-rehab. Upon hospital discharge, neurological testing revealed deficits in short term memory, executive functioning, and spatial recognition.
Today: Neuropsychological examination five months post-accident indicated a return to normal cognitive functioning, and I returned to work approximately 6 months after the accident. I am grateful to be alive and am looking forward to enjoying the rest of my life.
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