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Loss of fine motor skills
Hello I am a 29 year old man about 6 years ago now I had a massive seizure that was estimated at about 10 hours long 7 for sure it put me in a coma I ended up with ABI the damage is on the right side of my brain affecting the left side of my body I little to no fine motor skills and cannot control the left side of my face how can I correct this? Or is it going to be like this for the rest of my life? Because typing with one hand is very slow and tiring and people often wonder whats wrong with my face
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I agree with Caregiver. There is a lot of missing information. Loss of fine motor skills occurs due to stroke, demyelination disorders, motor neuron disease etc. The treatment will depend on the cause. Also the recovery will depend on the extent of damage and whether this is reversible or not. This is something one cannot assess on net. Your treating neurologist can best answer your query.
Hope this helps. Please let me know if there is any thing else and do keep me posted. Take care!
Welcome to the MedHelp forum!
I agree with Caregiver. There is a lot of missing information. Loss of fine motor skills occurs due to stroke, demyelination disorders, motor neuron disease etc. The treatment will depend on the cause. Also the recovery will depend on the extent of damage and whether this is reversible or not. This is something one cannot assess on net. Your treating neurologist can best answer your query.
Hope this helps. Please let me know if there is any thing else and do keep me posted. Take care!
You ask an unanswerable question. And there are a lot of missing pieces to your story.
For example, "what caused the damage?". Was it a clot or a bleed? Was it a growth? An aneurysm? Sometimes there is a clot that forms from dehydration, for example, and there is little liklihood that there will be additional damage.
The damage may have come from a "one-time event". You need to discuss this with your physician.
As long as the damage is not progressive we have a great deal of redundancy in the human brain. We have, in fact two brains.
Over time, individuals who have suffered severe injury to one side of the brain have often had the opposite side of the brain take over all the lost functions over time.
So, you should remain optimistic.
What you can do to speed up the process is controversial.
I assisted in the rehabilitation of a 99 year old woman (she is now 105 and a happy camper) who experienced a stroke at age 98. She had lost the ability to speak and the entire left side of her face drooped and she could not smile. By age 102, her face became essentially normal, and she regained much of the lost ability on her left side and regained the ability to feed herself..
It is clear that age is not the issue. The human body is a magical machine.
For example, "what caused the damage?". Was it a clot or a bleed? Was it a growth? An aneurysm? Sometimes there is a clot that forms from dehydration, for example, and there is little liklihood that there will be additional damage.
The damage may have come from a "one-time event". You need to discuss this with your physician.
As long as the damage is not progressive we have a great deal of redundancy in the human brain. We have, in fact two brains.
Over time, individuals who have suffered severe injury to one side of the brain have often had the opposite side of the brain take over all the lost functions over time.
So, you should remain optimistic.
What you can do to speed up the process is controversial.
I assisted in the rehabilitation of a 99 year old woman (she is now 105 and a happy camper) who experienced a stroke at age 98. She had lost the ability to speak and the entire left side of her face drooped and she could not smile. By age 102, her face became essentially normal, and she regained much of the lost ability on her left side and regained the ability to feed herself..
It is clear that age is not the issue. The human body is a magical machine.
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