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30 October 2009

An Australian man has made a vast recovery from a traumatic brain injury through physiotherapy, psychology and speech therapy.

On October 19th 2008, Bruce Beavis, of Singleton, Australia suffered a traumatic brain injury that nearly killed him.

He was in hospital for eight weeks, ten days of which were spent in an induced coma, the Singleton Argus reported.

Medical staff told Mr Beavis' wife, Trish Beavis, that the mechanical engineer had not sustained a great deal of damage to the front of his brain and that his spinal cord was not damaged, however, it would still take years of rehabilitation for him to recover from the brain injury, according to the newspaper.

From Monday to Friday Mr Beavis underwent physiotherapy, psychology and speech therapy as part of his recovery at the Newcastle Brain Injury unit.

The Australian newspaper reported that Mr Beavis remembers clearly his life up until the accident, but his short-term memory is still not as it was before the brain injury, although the therapy he has been undergoing is improving this.

According to the NHS, each year over a million people visit hospital with a head injury. Approximately 135,000 of those will have to be admitted to hospital because of the severity of their injury.

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