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(BBC 07/11/2009)
Chas Cerveny was so badly injured during a family skiing holiday that his family feared he might die. Then, as he came out of his three week coma, they worried that he might remain partially paralysed. But today the 13-year-old is almost fully recovered and has just started at a new school. His mother, Gretchen, said her son's accident had been a completely freak occurrence fluke, but had caused devastating injuries.
Girl regains memory after crash thanks to video from pupils
(The Scotsman 08/10/2009)
WHEN Francesca Naismith woke up in the Sick Kids Hospital after being knocked off her bike, she couldn't even recognise her father. But despite suffering a severe brain injury less than two months ago, the 11-year-old has made a full recovery %u2013 and it's all with a little help from her friends. Francesca was knocked off a friend's bike just yards from her Penicuik home on 15 August, and was rushed to hospital with a police escort to be admitted to intensive care.
Good as new - man regrows skull 50 years after accident
(BBC 06/10/2009)
The severely damaged skull of a Northumberland man involved in a car crash 50 years ago has regenerated itself, a process thought to be rare. Doctors operated to treat an infection in Gordon Moore's head and found the bone had grown back beneath the metal plate inserted after the accident. This would not be unusual in a child, whose bones are growing, but there are very few documented cases in adults. Doctors said it was particularly remarkable given the size of the area.
'Booze therapy' for brain injury
(BBC 22/09/2009)
A dose of alcohol may be a good treatment for people with head injuries, emergency doctors suggest. Their basis for this is the discovery that people appear less likely to die following brain trauma if they have alcohol in their bloodstream. It could be that alcohol dampens the body's inflammatory response to injury, the US team told Archives of Surgery. But they stressed that alcohol can cause medical complications and is contributory to many accidents.
The headbangers on a highway to casualty: Experts warn rock dance can cause brain injury
(Daily Mail 18/12/2008)
Outside the heavy rock fraternity, it has always been considered a rather ridiculous custom. But now, it emerges, the practice of headbanging is downright dangerous. Professor Andrew McIntosh, of the University of New South Wales, said headbanging to songs such as AC/DC's Highway to Hell put fans at risk of 'mild traumatic brain injury'.
(BBC 14/09/2008)
I had hit my head on the road and had fractured the back of my skull and badly damaged my brain from the impact of the hit. I had five hours of brain surgery and part of my right frontal lobe removed."
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