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Exercises To Experience The Effects Of Brain Injury

What Does Living With A Brain Injury Feel Like?

Brain injury is often referred to as the ‘invisible injury’, because on the outside people may look healthy, but on the inside they have been hurt and are still healing. Recovery is a long, difficult struggle, and how you react to a survivor’s challenges can seriously affect their self esteem.

While it is impossible for anyone without a brain injury to know what survivors experience, or to understand the effects, here are a few great exercises to give you a pretty good idea of what it feels like.

Greasy Goggles


1. Coat eyeglasses or goggles with Vaseline,
put them on and then try to move around.
Peanut butter in mouth



2. Put a big blob of peanut butter on your tongue, and then try to talk.
Tying Shoes



3. Try to tie your shoe laces using your non-dominate hand.
Writing with the other hand



4. Try to write using your non-dominate hand.
Marbles


5. Get a partner, and each of you put a patch over
one eye. Now throw and catch marbles to each other
using the hand opposite of the one that your patch is on.
Earbud


6. Wear a sound magnifying earbud (like hunters use),
and turn it to its greatest amplification.
Spinning


7. Set an alarm (loud) to go off every 5 minutes. When it does, stop
whatever you are doing, stand up and repeat the alphabet backward, as
you turn around 20 times in one direction, and then 20 times the other.


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Phone: 250-562-4673
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Phone: 250-224-4673
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