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Suffering a brain injury accident can be debilitating, and could even result in death, but even though the head and brain are fragile and can easily be harmed, experts in science and medicine keep making discoveries into how resilient human beings are in the face of life-threatening, or life-changing, injuries.
Perhaps one of the earliest recorded examples of an amazing recovery by a brain injury casualty occurred in 1848, in the USA, Vermont.
The individual in question was called Phineas Gage, and he defied what seemed medically possible at the time by surviving an explosion which propelled a railway tramping iron into his skull through to the other side.
A large part of the left side of his brain was reportedly destroyed, and yet he felt capable of going back to work a few months after the incident.
Most brain trauma injuries do have an impact on the person who has suffered it, and in this case Mr Gage's personality was apparently so changed that his friends are noted to have said he was "no longer Gage," and his employers did not wish him to return to work since, amongst other things, he had become irreverent and impatient. Nevertheless – he survived.
In 2006, Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond made a miraculous recovery after crashing a jet-powered car which had been travelling at approximately 300mph. In news reports a day after the incident he was described as being in a "serious but stable condition". Soon after, a doctor stated that "his recovery is absolutely remarkable.
"Given his sort of progress so far, then I would suspect in two or three weeks he'll certainly be, if not all the way back to his normal self, then certainly well on his way."
In 2010 another news story reported the incredible recovery of a young woman who had fallen 100 metres down a ski slope in 2008, hitting her head on rocks on the way down.
When her ski group reached her she was unconscious and doctors, at the hospital she was airlifted to, said that she had lesions in the white matter of her brain and would never again lead a normal life.
She remained in a coma for more than five weeks, yet only 20 months after her accident she was fit and healthy enough to walk up Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain, to raise money for the Help for Heroes charity.
Every day people have the strength of character to overcome great personal injury and with modern advances in medicine more startling recoveries become a real possibility.
Brain injury accident claims
If you or a member of your family have suffered a brain injury in a non-fault accident for which someone else is liable, with the help of a no win, no fee solicitor you could receive 100% compensation.
Head injury can be traumatic for both the casualty and for family and friends. Contact us today on 0800 10 757 95 or request a call back to talk to a helpful adviser about your brain injury accident compensation claim.
