{"id":371,"date":"2010-04-19T10:04:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T16:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waiting.com\/blog\/?p=371"},"modified":"2010-05-25T11:32:01","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T17:32:01","slug":"snowboarder-kevin-pearce-may-be-journeying-home-after-tbi-rehabilitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waiting.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/snowboarder-kevin-pearce-may-be-journeying-home-after-tbi-rehabilitation.html","title":{"rendered":"Snowboarder Kevin Pearce May Be Journeying Home After TBI Rehabilitation"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>The prognosis is looking good for Kevin Pearce, the champion snowboarder who sustained a traumatic brain injury during a halfpipe practice Dec. 31, according to The New York Times. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/17\/sports\/17pearce.html?ref=sports\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/17\/sports\/17pearce.html?ref=sports<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0Pearce, who would have been a contender in the Winter Olympics if not for his accident, has been recovering from his injuries at a brain rehabilitation facility, Craig Hospital, in Englewood, Colo.<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0The 22-year-old has been making so much progress that he will be going home to Norwich, Vt., in the next few weeks according to the story, which is headlined \u201cNo Gold, but Something Better: Going Home.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>Pearce\u2019s doctor believes that the youth will one day be snowboarding again. But the physician warned that Pearce shouldn\u2019t be trying to do any halfpipes again. But one wonders if a snowboarder like Pearce, part of a counterculture sport that courts danger, will heed any doctor\u2019s warnings.<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0Pearce still risks dying because of the blood that filled his brain\u2019s ventricles after his accident. He also sustained deep axonal brain injury.<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0He was practicing a \u201cdouble cork,\u201d a key stunt, when he hit his head on the halfpipe. Pearce got his injuries even though he was wearing a helmet.<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0In rehab, Pearce had to learn to talk and walk again. He is still having problems with his balance, and is wearing special eyeglasses to address that issue.<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0And his memory is still very sketchy, according to his family. Let\u2019s hope he remembers the lesson of his TBI: No more halfpipes.<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prognosis is looking good for Kevin Pearce, the champion snowboarder who sustained a traumatic brain injury during a halfpipe practice Dec. 31, according to The New York Times. http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/17\/sports\/17pearce.html?ref=sports \u00a0Pearce, who would have been a contender in the Winter Olympics if not for his accident, has been recovering from his injuries at a brain [&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":[589,547,546,549],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-craig-hospital","tag-kevin-pearce","tag-snowboarding-and-brain-injury","tag-snowboarding-and-concussions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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