#10: Post-Concussion Recovery - Harmful Medical Verdicts

Concussion Stories podcast

During post-concussion recovery, many of us feel absolutely lost. This often (partly) originates from our conversations with doctors. We are checked for clear injuries, like a brain bleed or an inability to find words, and when we don’t have them, a lot of us are sent home.

After a while, our concussions turn into post-concussion syndrome. And when they do, many of us hear that we need to learn to live with our symptoms, that our symptoms might be due to stress, or that our brain damage will very likely never recover.

These are truly harmful messages, especially so because so much about post-concussion syndrome is not yet understood by science, and one can never predict the outcome of another person’s recovery. Moreover: both science and my complete recovery show that there is hope!

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Table of contents:
03:05 The harmful side of post-concussion care
06:56 Medical professionals and post-concussion recovery
10:31 Harmful post-concussion advice
13:07 Post-concussion depression
17:54 Your post-concussion recovery