When Laura finished high school in 2022, her body could no longer hold. The after-effects of the concussion hit, and she was sickened with depression and pronounced brain fatigue.
Every day behind rolled-down curtains
In the years after the accident, Laura was at times almost isolated. Everyday life took place in a darkened room, often with sunglasses on indoors. Light and sound physically hurt, memory failed and the headache was constant. She could rarely stand being with other people.
Even short attempts at a company internship – as little as two to four hours a week – were unmanageable and exhausting.
“I hardly remember that time,” says Laura. "It all flowed together in pain and fatigue."
The road to Re-Mind
In November 2024, Laura's mother heard about the Re-Mind treatment and took Laura to an information meeting. Here the family decided to test the treatment.
Laura had had severe headaches and her usual discomfort right up until the treatment. She describes the experience itself like this:
"It was insane - completely crazy," she says.
When she stepped outside, she experienced the surroundings differently:
"I detected people, sounds and cars around me - I used to only register what was half a meter away. At home, the family tested my sensitivity to sound by dropping cutlery and emptying the dishwasher - and I didn't react to it at all. The headache was also gone."
After the treatment, Laura resumed her EUX training and started the final student course full time.
"That money was extremely well spent. It was like getting her life back," she says.
How the Re-Mind treatment works
Re-Mind is a medical treatment that targets neuroinflammation - an inflammatory condition that can occur in the brain after, among other things, a concussion, a traumatic brain injury, a blood clot or bleeding in the brain or covid-19. The treatment is offered by Rehab-Partner | Neurologic Recovery Clinics and is supervised by the clinic's neurologist, Güven Gürbüz, specialist in neurology. He explains the background to the treatment:
"When you have had a concussion, the blood-brain barrier that normally protects the brain can become leaky. This can trigger a long-term inflammatory state in the brain, which we call neuroinflammation. Symptoms such as headaches, light and sound sensitivity and brain fatigue - such as those described by Laura - are common when neuroinflammation is present. The Re-Mind treatment is aimed at reducing this inflammation. It is important to emphasize that patients do not respond equally to the treatment, and that the effect depends, among other things, on how much of the symptoms is due to inflammation and how much is due to the injury itself."
The treatment is off-label. This means that an approved medicine is used for a purpose other than that for which the medicine was originally approved. All patients receive information about this and give informed consent.
You must know this before a treatment
Before a Re-Mind treatment, you undergo a mandatory specialist assessment, a review of your medical history and screening blood tests. The treatment is only offered if the condition is deemed suitable - and you should know that not everyone experiences the effect of the treatment.
The most frequent side effects of the treatment are mild. They may include redness or itching at the injection site, a slight feeling of fever without actual fever, and transient headache, typically for one day.
Re-Mind is offered as a medical supplement to your other treatment and rehabilitation. If you want to know more, you can attend one of the information meetings held by Neurologic Recovery Clinics.
