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Originally Posted by ProAgonist
This is amazing, great to hear!
Can you please share with us the things you did in order to recover so well from your injury? Did it just happen spontaneously, or you got a certain treatment that helped you recover more efficiently?
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It certainly wasn't spontaneous. A spent a month inpatient in Barrow's Neurological rehab at St. Joseph's hospital in Phoenix. I was fortunate to have a physiatrist MD that is recognized as an expert in rehab for TBI survivors.
I had daily physical therapy (was still in a wheelchair at that time), occupational and speech therapy. Some of the therapies included board and Wii games, building Lego models, solving sorting problems, stuff like that. Tasks that help rewire damaged synapses. After hospital discharge I continued outpatient therapy. As memory and task accomplishment starting coming back I started working part time from home. Getting back to tasks like data analysis, communicating with co-workers, and just starting to feel productive again helped a lot.
My family also got me a "therapy dog", my little pug Keona.
My ongoing therapies include mindfulness meditation, yoga and monthly massage therapy.