Personal Stories
How Concussion Alliance helped Michelle Limmer with her concussion recovery
In this 4-minute video, concussion patient Michelle Limmer talks about the challenges she faced getting appropriate care and how Concussion Alliance helped her recovery journey.
This is what a concussion sounds like
In this 6-minute radio program, Concussion Alliance Co-founder and CEO Conor Gormally interviewed Daisy Emminger, who missed much of her freshman year of high school because of a concussion.
Crash Course Story Wall
The CrashCourse Concussion Story Wall has hundreds of personal stories in video format. You can sort through the stories by
Cause of injury (accident, military service, and type of sport)
Sports celebrities sharing their stories
Type of concussion symptoms
Type of stories (injury story, physical or mental struggles, greatest challenge, personal recovery tips, retrospective advice)
Share Your Story
We would love to hear your story. Let us know if you would like us to keep your story private or if we can publish it on our website to help others. You can contact us here.
Below are a few questions that can serve as a guide when writing about your experience with a concussion.
1. What happened? How did you get your concussion(s)?
2. What things did you try to help with healing? Types of treatments? What worked and what didn't? What kind of self-care helped? How did you deal with the emotional component? Tell us something about your support system.
3. How are you now? Are you completely recovered, or some percentage of recovered? How long did it take to recover? What can you do now that you couldn't do while you were recovering?