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[quote=Anonymous]OP, there are just too many variables about TBI for anyone on DCUM to give you any specifics about likelihood of recovery.

Unless you're a medical doctor, then I doubt any reading you've been doing is a reliably better indicator about outcomes.

Please follow the lead of the parents, who may not be telling you everything. Sometimes when the situation is bad, the last thing a parent needs is someone who really doesn't have any medical background or experience pressing the family to try crazy unproven treatments -- trips to mexico, herbal supplements, acupuncture and hyperbaric treatments.

I know you mean well, but pressing treatments on a family in distress can cause more pain.

If the family is expressing doubt about the diagnosis or outcome they're being given, encourage and support them to find another doctor to provide a second opinion, preferably one with lots of experience in the kind of injury suffered.

But, sorry, acupuncture for major TBI is a ridiculously unhelpful suggestion. [/quote]

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