{"id":1109,"date":"2011-01-30T22:47:07","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T04:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waiting.com\/blog\/?p=1109"},"modified":"2011-01-30T22:47:07","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T04:47:07","slug":"brain-damaged-snowboarder-returns-to-the-slopes-as-an-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waiting.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/brain-damaged-snowboarder-returns-to-the-slopes-as-an-observer.html","title":{"rendered":"Brain-Damaged Snowboarder Returns To The Slopes As An Observer"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Snowboarder Kevin Pearce is still on the mend from his traumatic brain injury.<\/p>\r\n<p>Pearce, once a champion in his sport,\u00a0is still making headway\u00a0in terms of his recovery from his devastating accident Dec. 31, 2009. Pearce, now 23, was practicing a particularly tough move, a double cork, in Utah when he\u00a0hit his head on the edge of a halfpipe. Even though he was wearing a helmet, Pearce sustained serious brain damage.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0Last week he was in Aspen, Colo., longingly watching his friends and fellow snowboarders prepare for the Winter X Games.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/28\/sports\/28xgames.html?scp=1&amp;sq=kevin%20pearce&amp;st=cse\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/28\/sports\/28xgames.html?scp=1&amp;sq=kevin%20pearce&amp;st=cse<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>After his accident, Pearce spent a month in a hospital before being transferred to the Craig Hospital in Denve for rehabilitation. Last May he went to his parents&#8217;\u00a0 Vermont home, where he is continuing his recovery.<\/p>\r\n<p>Pearce has to wear eyeglasses now, or he sees double, according to The New York Times. He is apparently yearning to return to snowboarding, but has been told by his doctors that his brain injury recovery will take two years, not one year as Pearce\u00a0expected.<\/p>\r\n<p>It seems that common sense would dictate that Pearce\u00a0forget about snowboarding. Let&#8217;s see if he&#8217;s learned any lessons from his horrific accident.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snowboarder Kevin Pearce is still on the mend from his traumatic brain injury. Pearce, once a champion in his sport,\u00a0is still making headway\u00a0in terms of his recovery from his devastating accident Dec. 31, 2009. Pearce, now 23, was practicing a particularly tough move, a double cork, in Utah when he\u00a0hit his head on the edge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[547,737,546],"class_list":["post-1109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-kevin-pearce","tag-kevin-pearce-and-brain-injury","tag-snowboarding-and-brain-injury"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Brain-Damaged Snowboarder Returns To The Slopes As An Observer  - Brain Injury Lawyer Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/waiting.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/brain-damaged-snowboarder-returns-to-the-slopes-as-an-observer.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Brain-Damaged Snowboarder Returns To The Slopes As An Observer  - Brain Injury Lawyer Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Snowboarder Kevin Pearce is still on the mend from his traumatic brain injury. 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