David BrimacombePost-concussion syndrome (PCS) recovery coach

You Have PCS Recovery Completely Backwards #pcsrecovery #postconcussionsyndrome

9 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this YouTube monologue, David Brimacombe argues that post‑concussion syndrome (PCS) recovery is often approached incorrectly by fixating on distant, lofty goals—like reaching the summit of a mountain. He uses a mountaineering analogy to illustrate that successful climbers concentrate on a series of small, achievable checkpoints (base camps) rather than the ultimate peak. Brimacombe explains that setting overly large steps makes the recovery gap feel impossible, whereas breaking the journey into tiny, logical progressions allows the mind to bridge each gap, fostering confidence and steady advancement. The core message is to reframe PCS recovery as a series of manageable, incremental steps, which improves motivation and makes the process mentally tractable.

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This is where you have the recovery all wrong because you can't look that far in the future. You can't look at yourself and say, I want to get to that point. I want to get to the summit of the mountain. Now, ask any mountaineer when they're at the base, their goal is not, I'm going to get all the way up to the top. They're not thinking about the top of the mountain, the summit. They're thinking about incremental steps, about getting to one checkpoint, getting to another, Getting to another base camp, because that's going to give them that— those small steps, those logical progressions that they can make. Now, if you make your steps too big, it becomes impossible in your mind to bridge that gap. But when you make them smaller, you can step from one to another and think how I can get to a third quite easily.