Positive Mental Attitude Can Aid Recovery

It's difficult because recovery from an SCI is a long process that some view as impossible, but the worst part of it is the way they discuss "possibilities." The current views of SCI recovery are incorrect, and we have research to prove that you can regain function, albeit different individual amounts, through activity based exercise and therapy. Research Unfortunately it is hard to measure and this is what deters the healthcare world from continuing therapy.. The clients I see all are trying to prove their doctors wrong by regaining function, sensation, sometimes even the ability to walk again, but the main drive is their positive attitude towards recovery. Timing is tough because everyone recovers at a different rate, but I have yet to see someone plateau through our therapy. It sucks that most doctors and physios will discourage any type of progress which can lead to tunnel vision as far as outlook on life goes, yet there are always options if you are willing to put the time and effort in. As a client of mine always says, Life Goes On, Keep It Pushing.

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I think that it is important to have a positive mental attitude, but also that that doesn't necessarily make a difference to nerve recovery.  But where ever we are we need to try to do a little more today than we did yesterday and not listen to the naysayers.

The difficult part is to maintain a positive attitude after a long period of no improvement.  My experience is that after a while of no improvement I am going to change something.  I will change until something improves.  I am having some success with this method.

There is NO healing time limit for the human body! It will continue to try to heal itself as long as you have a functioning brain and oxygenated blood pumping through your body.

If someone tells you "2 years is the most you'll every heal" then they must be saying you will be dead in 2 years, because that is the only way it would be true! I don't subscribe to those doctors because they are short sighted and only became a doctor for the preconceived money they could make. Any good doctor is a doctor that is always amazed at what the human body can endure and recover from. That is the doctor I want.

Here is an easy test. If your doctor read your MRI like a death sentence was being handed out, you have the wrong doctor!

My ideal doctor is the one that says "All this damage and your body is still finding a way to wiggle your big toe!"