mbingel...good point
yes, in most cases, the young brain is more able to rehabilitate and form new neural connections that can compensate or replace the damaged or defective ones.
However....though SLOWER, an older brain is still capable of incredible healing.
I have found Bob Woodruff's story(journalist hit by bomb in Iraq) very interesting.Even after such a traumatic head injury and the resultant expressive aphasia .....his recovery is a marvel.
Two years later he is still seeing improvements. He is 46 years old!!!
Steven Flanagan (associate prof. of rehab. med. at Mt. Sinai School Of med.....) mentions in articles about Woodruff how the brain is "plastic"..it has the capacity to change OVER TIME. "So after an injury, it adapts by making new connections"
Any age, can benefit, from a scoliosis program that focuses on trying to rehabilitate the CNS.



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