It is easy for people with TBI and their families to become discouraged or depressed at what seems like a very slow rate of recovery. But a bruised brain needs time to heal.
Posted on BrainLine August 28, 2012.
Produced by Krystal Klingenberg, Justin Rhodes, and Jared Schaubert, BrainLine.
About the author: Marilyn Spivack
Marilyn Price Spivack is the neurotrauma outreach coordinator at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston. She is the co-founder and past president of the National Head Injury Foundation, now known as the Brain Injury Association of America. Her daughter sustained a severe TBI in 1975.
