A father recovers from brain injury after struggling for 8 years

Clark Elliot underwent experimental brain retraining therapy.

Clark Elliot, a father of five, went through some drastic changes in his life when he had an accident, eight years ago, that ultimately damaged his brain. Told there wasn't any hope of a complete recovery, Elliot struggled to keep his house, custody of his kids and his job, which were all in the brink of being taken away from him.

MUNTINLUPA, PHILIPPINES (Catholic Online) - In 1999, Elliot incurred a traumatic brain injury from a car accident. The extent of his injury affected a large portion of his brain, which left him unable to remember how to do certain things and name all his five children without messing up. He noted that he lost hope of things will ever looking up for him and his family.

Just when he was about to give up, something, he elatedly refers to as the stroke of luck he badly needed, happened. He was talking about "brain plasticity" - a process which he searched for and later on decided to go through with.

Brain plasticity is a medical procedure that uses retinal inputs to modify or alter the functions of the brain. This allows the brain to isolate the unhealthy parts and channel its impulses to the healthy parts allowing them to take over the other functions that the unusable areas will no longer be able to do.

Elliot, who is an expert in artificial intelligence from Chicago's DePaul University, explained that his doctors used a technology known as visual puzzles to help retrain and reorient his brain to function normally.

Wearing a specially designed pair of prescription glasses, he claims that in just three short weeks, his brain recovered up to as much as 70 percent. And within a span of two years, he and his brain achieved complete recovery.

Now he is one of the leading advocates of brain plasticity and has written a book entitled "Ghost in My Brain: How a Concussion Stole My Life and How New Science of Brain Plasticity Helped Me Get it Back."

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