How can we live with a brain injury, damaged in an accident? How can one learn to walk, speak, reason, interact with others when we coming out of coma? How to rehabilitate a brain that no longer works as before? In short, is one still himself after such an ordeal? These are the questions that face every day brain-damaged people and therapists who accompany them. Together they must find ways to circumvent the problems caused by brain injury. Painstaking work, which requires on both sides patience and, above all, a lot of courage. Doctors, therapists and physiotherapists are all working together to help those affected in order to regain their independence and dignity. The flagship report in this issue is a real document. It portrays two young characters, cut down by misfortune, who agreed to openly tell their stories. They show us the difficulty of their lives, their dismay at what is called the invisible disability, including problems such as identifying the foods they like to eat. But they also tell us their expectations and hopes, among other brain-damaged advancing, sometimes dramatically, on the road to rebirth ...
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