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Surviving Brain Damage After Assault

From Vegetative State to Meaningful Life
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At twenty-eight, Gary suffered a brutal assault resulting in severe brain damage and multiple skull fractures. After nineteen months with minimal awareness, his gradual recovery astonished everyone. This book shares interviews with Gary, his devoted mother Wendie, medical staff, and therapists, chronicling the challenging journey through injury, extensive rehabilitation, and family support that led to his remarkable recovery.

Surviving Brain Damage after Assault dispels myths about long-term recovery from reduced consciousness and highlights the possibility of significant improvement, making it invaluable for professionals and families confronting brain injury.
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Ideal for rehabilitation professionalsโ€”including psychologists, speech and language therapists, occupational therapists, social workers, and doctorsโ€”as well as individuals and families affected by brain injury seeking insight and hope.

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At the age of twenty-eight, Gary was assaulted by a gang with baseball bats and a hammer, resulting in several skull fractures and severe brain damage. For nineteen months he had little awareness of his surroundings before he started to show some recovery. This inspirational book documents his exceptional journey.

The book presents a series of interviews with Gary, his mother Wendie, who never gave up, the medical team who initially treated him, and the therapists who worked with him over a period of three years. Through their testimony, we learn about the devastating effects which can follow a serious assault to the head, and the long process of recovery over several years. With specialist rehabilitation and continuing family support, Gary has exceeded expectations, and, apart from some minor physical problems, he is now a normal young man.

Surviving Brain Damage After Assault shows that, contrary to popular belief, considerable gains can be made by people who have experienced a long period of reduced consciousness. The book will be of great value to all professionals working in rehabilitationโ€”psychologists, speech and language therapists, occupational therapists, social workers and rehabilitation doctors, and to people who have sustained a brain injury and their families.

Series: After Brain Injury: Survivor Stories

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Praised for its detailed account of prolonged, delayed recovery, this work is considered essential for rehabilitation research and healthcare planning. - Lindsay McLellan, Formerly Europe Professor of Rehabilitation

A fascinating, scientific exploration of late recovery from minimally conscious states that challenges conventional notions of recovery limits, enriched by family and client perspectives. - Agnes Shiel, Professor of Occupational Therapy

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138824577

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 10 February 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 6 Tables, black and white; 4 Line drawings, black and white; 7 Halftones, black and white; 11 Illustrations, black and white

Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 138.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 317g

Pages: 154

About the Author

Barbara A Wilson is a clinical neuropsychologist who has worked in brain injury rehabilitation for nearly 40 years. She has won many awards for her work including an OBE for services to rehabilitation and three lifetime achievement awards, one from the British Psychological Society, one from the International Neuropsychological Society and one from the National Academy of Neuropsychology. The Division of Neuropsychology has named a prize after her, "The Barbara A Wilson prize for distinguished contributions to neuropsychology." She is honorary professor at the University of Hong Kong, the University of Sydney and the University of East Anglia. Samira Kashinath Dhamapurkar is an Occupational Therapist. Her special interest is in working with people in low awareness states. She worked in India at the Masina Hospital on a psychiatric/drug addiction unit and in a special school for autistic children before coming to the United Kingdom. For the past four years she has worked in the area of neurorehabilitation In addition to her clinical work, she is also involved in research involving people with disorders of consciousness. Anita Rose is a Consultant Neuropsychologist. She works at the Raphael Medical Centre in Tonbridge and also works as an independent Consultant Neuropsychologist across the globe. She provides significant input in the field of multiple sclerosis via her clinical work, research publications, booklets and consultancy to the MS groups in the UK. She is Vice Chair for the European Neuropsychology Special Interest Group in MS, and acts as a clinical advisor to the MS Society in South Africa.

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