Michael Schumacher seriously injured

Such a tragic event, its unbelieveable how risking everything for so many years, coming away relatively unscathed, yet go skiing and almost loose his life going to help someone up.

This will be a long fight, but one thing we know is that Schumacher will never give up.
 
I was reading the recent article in the Daily (fail) mail:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ts-special-clinic-home-cost-100-000-week.html

Picking through all the crud, the only important bit of information is really that he is in the minimally concious state. If you want to know in more detail what this is, take a look here:
http://www.casinapioiv.va/content/dam/accademia/pdf/sv110/sv110-davis.pdf

My own Quick (total noob) summary after reading this is below:
There are two main parts of conciousness, Arousal (Wakefullness) and Awareness (of the environment and self).

Michael is likely to have retained Arousal, but impared awareness to be classed in this state.

This might be simply eye tracking, or small physical gestures, and perhaps some basic vocalisations (not actual talking), or any combination/variation of the above.

This state can continue indefinitely, or patients may recover slowly going through a confusion phase before recovering well (Think Richard Hammond)

Extreme Cliff notes:
Essentially, Michael is likely to be partially concious

This is pretty much exactly what was said in the great blog by Gary Hartstein back in January:
"Whereas a patient in a vegetative state shows no signs of awareness, a patient in a minimally conscious state will show definite signs of awareness of either self and/or of the environment. This may include obeying simple orders, some intelligible language use, or other behaviors that seem “goal directed”. Examples would be appropriate emotional responses, appropriate eye tracking, consistent and appropriate movement or vocalisation in response to language (not just sounds). These signs usually fluctuate through the day, and over time. Importantly, the chances of meaningful recovery from a minimally conscious state are higher than from a vegetative state. They are however, still disappointingly low."
http://formerf1doc.wordpress.com/20...might-be-going-long-speculative-and-detailed/

So essentially, we know no more now, than we did then, in terms of his recovery :(

Still, with all that said, I hope he proves everyone wrong!
 
Jean Todt has delivered perhaps the most promising news about Michael Schumacher's condition since the F1 legend's fateful skiing fall last December.

The pair became close friends at Ferrari last decade as the Italian team dominated Formula One.

Since then, 45-year-old Schumacher has retired and Frenchman Todt is now FIA president, but they remained close friends.

Todt has visited the Schumacher family since the seven time world champion returned to his home in Switzerland after months in hospital and rehabilitation.

Precious little is known about Schumacher's health condition, but Todt has reportedly now delivered an upbeat report to the Belgian broadcaster RTL.

"We may assume that Schumacher can live a relatively normal life within a short period of time," said the FIA president.

"What we can say is that he will probably never again drive a Formula One car."

RTL said Todt, 68, visited Schumacher at his home on the shore of Lake Geneva in the week before the Japanese Grand Prix.

"He fights. His condition improves, which is very important," said Todt, "as is the fact that he is now home with his family."
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http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/schumacher-can-live-normal-life-again-todt
 
Hardly surprising he's spinning a good line about Schumachers condition after Bianchi just suffered a head injury.

I personally see it as him saying what we already knew: he's at home with his family.
 
I don't see it as good news, yet again it's no news at all just a PR article which actually tells us nothing. "assume"
Nothing about actually making progress. Or what if anything he can do.

If anything it's bad news. When they can't actually say anything, it more than likely means no change, and the longer no change, the chance of rehabilitation diminishes.
 
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Glaucus said:
I don't see it as good news, yet again it's no news at all just a PR article which actually tells us nothing. "assume"
Nothing about actually making progress. Or what if anything he can do.

If anything it's bad news. When they can't actually say anything, it more than likely means no change, and the longer no change, the chance of rehabilitation diminishes.
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Unfortunately I think I have to agree with this. It says nothing we don't already know, and could have been a poor translation or out of context.
 
Apparently it's a mistranslation / misquote. What he actually said was ''We must hope that Schumacher can live a normal life soon".

So not as promising as it first sounded. :(
 
chriscatt said:
Exactly that, Tod has stated Schumacher will never drive a formula 1 car again...
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Which is neither as dire nor as obvious as it sounds. Even excluding senior competition, many retired drivers still do demos and promotional appearances in older models.

What I'm getting from Todt's comments is that Schumacher is aware but bedbound and possibly uncommunicative. He won't get everything back; the question now is how much he'll get back.
 
The BBC is reporting that he's making progress..

A doctor who treated Michael Schumacher for nearly six months after his brain injury in a skiing accident says the F1 champion has made "some progress".

But Jean-Francois Payen, a doctor at the French hospital in Grenoble where he was treated, warned that any recovery would take time.

The typical convalescence period was one to three years, he suggested.​

At this point I'll be delighted if he can have some kind of normal life so I think this is pretty good news.
 
I hope he makes a good recovery.

Some part of me also hopes they are filming the recovery progress.
It would make a fantastic documentary.
Wasn't there an Eddie Kid documentary (Although without the recovery)
 
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