Recovery Facts

Music therapy can help people with brain injuries recover speech, motor skills, and access memories that seemed lost, with some stroke and dementia patients able to sing songs they can no longer speak.

On Labor Day 2021, five men from a halfway house spotted a burning car on Interstate 8 in Lakeside, California - and pulled over while everyone else drove past. Ken and Joan Williamson, ages 92 and 90, had been rear-ended and were trapped inside as the flames spread. The car exploded during the rescue. Every single one of them stayed.

Bear Grylls broke three vertebrae in a parachuting accident in Zambia in 1996, falling from 16,000 feet. His surgeon said he was "within a whisker" of permanent paralysis. Eighteen months later, on May 26, 1998, he stood on the summit of Mount Everest at age 23.