Every 90 seconds someone walks into a hospital in the UK with a head injury and with 200,000 head injuries presented in hospitals each year, of which 40,000 are classed as a traumatic brain injury, these figures are worryingly high.
A member of our team experienced the side effects of a minor head injury recently. Neck pain, a sense of pressure in her head, fatigue, and sensitivity to noise; symptoms which affected her day-to-day life but weren’t so bad that she felt the need to seek medical attention.
Broadly speaking, as humans, we’re good at treating what is obviously wrong, a broken leg or perhaps a septic wound which is visibly poorly, but something we’re unable to see or comprehend even, not so good.
Week on week, the team see varying degrees of head injuries; and every client is unique each displaying an entirely different range of symptoms. Whilst some clients can communicate the symptoms they are experiencing in minute detail, others struggle to put into words how they are feeling, making the entire condition even more exasperating.
Joel, a head injury client of ours explains that our team’s unique ability to interpret his words gave him a huge sense of reassurance and relief, and in turn allowing him to feel heard and listened to, at a difficult time.
Caring for our clients and providing a course of action for them is something we do no matter what their condition, but our founder, Maria’s sons head injury background, head injuries will forever be an injury which we both understand and respect for its undeniable intricacies.
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