Avoid more TBI: The most important thing that you can do is to avoid activities where he may have future concussions. So if he is a football player, no more. There is a cumulative effect to multiple concussions which may have profound effects many years later. The other thing to avoid is alcohol and recreational drugs which can impede the brain's recovery.
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Focus in football: Increasingly, we are concluding that multiple head injuries lead to dementia, and the nfl is focusing on this severe issue. Prevention is key, and cognitive-behaviioural therapy, speech therapy, and a few memory enhancing agents may help. Medical foods such as axona, cerefolin-nac, and vayacog may be useful.
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