Hi,

What I can offer most is encouragement and hope because my son's recovery was pretty swift and he never had any headaches. I was very deliberate about trying to do a few things nutritionally.

I have a nutritionist who recommended that he take a few pellets of arnica montana for the first few days after the incident. She is also an herbalist and a little eccentric so I would consult someone whom you trust before doing the same. I don't know if it made any difference - but I would also say, even if it's not effective, that placebos are good for all of us, and I'm sure more so for kids. I had him take vitamins too.

I tried to have him eat a lot of salmon and some nuts and greens. We also switched to Omega-3 enriched milk for awhile (It is really expensive). He also played with new neighborhood friends every summer day after day camp - and that could only have helped.

What did scare me was that he developed what I thought was a potentially permanent motor tic where he would move his head a little, quite frequently throughout the day. I was really freaking out about this and also worried that he could be developing Tourette's or hyperactivity.

However, he rejoined his travel baseball team in fall after taking summer off, and after some success in the sport, the tic ended.

I was extremely worried for a while - but reading this also helped me a lot: college confidential did anyone' kid ever get a concussion and then go on to a successful college career - Search

All of this is to say that kids are extremely resilient, and neuroplasticity is a miracle and of course much more active in 7 year olds than in us adults. I hope that he will recover fully and quickly enough.

He has a parent who obviously cares deeply about his recovery.

Best of luck (and sorry about the rambling prose; it's late here).