Every Brain Injury is Different. You Need a Unique Plan for Recovery that works, doesn’t cost an arm and a leg, and helps you live life more fully. You need Mind Your Head Co-op.
Life in the land of the brain bludgeoned is hard. We struggle and strive each day with the burden and challenges of Brain Injury, which just makes the world that much harder.
There is hope. Entering life as fully as possible is the absolute best way to recover as much as possible. Mind Your Head Co-op exists to help you create and implement your custom long term recovery plan.
Preparing for Pilgrimage
I just returned from an S48O (sub 48 hour overnight) bike camping with our two oldest daughters. It was a test in a lot of ways, and we completed the trip well and as planned. It was wonderful! Riding... Read More →
Construction and Freedom
Construction. Construction inherently involves destruction. A vacant lot gets destroyed to make way for construction. An old building gets razed to make way for what is to come. Construction is noisy... Read More →
Quest: Rediscover Stillness
Bikepacking at Rampart Reservoir. This panoramic view is what we saw to our left, ahead, and right from our camp. That’s Pikes Peak on the left horizon, nearly straight south of us. What a great place... Read More →
How Does the Sound of a Rifle Shot End Your Ability To Walk?
One of the aims of running the Colorado Trail is to raise awareness for brain injury and how it effects those of us with bludgeoned brains. I got the question “How does the sound of a rifle make it... Read More →
Spend a Day on Planet TBI
To a healthy brain this looks like a gentle kiddy ride. To a brain injured brain its a massive barrage of motion blur, flashing lights, sound axes to the head, and much, much more. Want your ticket to... Read More →
Doing Worse Reveals Improvements
Yesterday my youngest daughter, heading for 2 years old, short circuited me by flinging a basket in front of my face. Usually, I would “shut down” rather than enter adrenaline rush which leads... Read More →
Premise: we evolved brains for one simple reason: to move with complex intricacy. If that is true, it stands to reason that movement in it’s various forms will help the brain heal by developing new pathways,... Read More →
Lactate Shuttle fuels the Injured Brain?
New research appears to show lactate (you know, the stuff we wrongly used to think made muscles sore after exercise) is a preferred fuel of the injured brain. See the full article. There are a few options... Read More →
Axona “Medical Food,” or Just Eat to Feed Your Brain
There is a new “medical food” out, Axona, in the form of a milkshake, which essentially is a single element of coconut oil extracted and put into a milk shake to power the brain with ketons rather... Read More →
Hobbit Sighting (Sure, he’s 6′-2″, but those feet!)
I do everything I can barefoot. Why? Aside from the fact that it feel s free and fantastic, I have constant vertigo due to neurological damage in my brain stem (just to quell ally he loving suggestions... Read More →
Guy With Vertigo Rides Bike!
Looks like a toy bike, aye? Those are 26” wheels. I’m just THAT big. Of all the test bikes I’ve tried, a too-small for me (as yet too big for my daughters) cromoly frame made in the US is the best... Read More →
Learning to Walk Again
Annabel cruising across the creek, well dressed for the 15˚F hike. For the past nine years I have walked differently because of my constant neurological vertigo. Initially, walking was all I could do... Read More →
