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Olivia Seitz

Olivia is a freelance copywriter who loves science, cats, and swing dancing. If she can tell a story with her writing, it's a good day.

After Five Years of Failed Treatment, This Former Player Overcame Her Soccer Concussion Symptoms — Here’s How

By: Olivia Seitz July 26th, 2019

When Sam Pembleton arrived at Cognitive FX for post-concussion syndrome treatment, she was shaking. Her nerves were so bad that she couldn’t speak to the other people in the waiting room. When they put her in the MRI machine, she panicked. It took several tries just to get through the scan.

A Bike Accident Took Her Voice Away — Here’s How She Got It Back

By: Olivia Seitz July 15th, 2019

Quirien Willemsen is a happy, busy mother to three young girls in Loenen aan de Vecht, The Netherlands. She works as a legal counsel for a bank, loves going skiing on holiday, and embraces life to the fullest. But just six months prior to this interview, it seemed like that lifestyle was lost forever.

Concussion Memory Loss: Recovery Stories From 6 mTBI Patients

By: Olivia Seitz July 11th, 2019

Memory loss is a common concussion symptom. But what many patients don’t know is that it comes in multiple forms and might not go away with time.

33 Years After a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), This Businessman Reclaimed His Life

By: Olivia Seitz April 30th, 2019

Samuel Gray spent his entire life trying to push past an invisible wall. His symptoms — things like brain fog, noise sensitivity, short-term memory loss, anxiety, and depression — made every day a challenge. And for most of the thirty-three years he suffered, he had no idea that his challenges stemmed from a childhood traumatic brain injury.

13 Years After a Concussion From Skiing, This Mother Made the Recovery Doctors Said Was Impossible

By: Olivia Seitz April 26th, 2019

In her youth, Myrthe van Boon loved playing sports and being outside. On breaks from school, she loved going sailing or teaching others how to sail. Her favorite holiday destination was going to the mountains to hit the slopes. But that life disappeared in an instant when she fell during a skiing trip at age 22.