Mission

Our mission is to transform recovery therapies and care provision for survivors of strokes and Acquired Brain Injury worldwide.

Category

Health

Additional Information

Brain injury represents a global health problem bigger than dementia - but still many people remain unaware of the sheer scale of the problem. Brain injuries are so widespread it is genuinely shocking that brain injury recovery services remain practically non-existent compared to more visible chronic health problems. For millions worldwide - survivors, their families and carers - the lack of brain injury provision is nothing short of an invisible healthcare crisis. There’s an outdated stigma attached to brain injury. Negative terms like ‘brain damage’ don’t help. We have to break that down by encouraging people to speak out about their experiences. I spoke out because I was aware that other people like me felt they couldn’t, and if I could lend my voice to theirs then together we could make people with brain injuries visible. The first step is to smash through the stigma to transform recovery care. People used to think - and many still do - that brain injuries are either one-off events that heal-up over time like broken limbs, or a catastrophe from which you’ll never recover. The truth is like your brain - much more complex than that. Most leading neuroscientists agree we haven’t discovered the most effective therapies for the long term physical, mental and behavioural problems that make brain injury recovery so difficult. They also agree that with research, we could achieve levels of recovery previously thought to be impossible. SameYou is working to turn that hope into reality.