Coma

Coma is not a diagnosis but rather a description of a dramatic symptom of profound brain injury.

Using symptoms in place of a proper diagnosis often leads to the attempt to treat those symptoms. This does not work.

To be successful one must treat the brain, where the injury actually exists.

A proper diagnosis describes where the injury exists in the brain, the degree of the injury to the brain, and the extent of the injury to the brain.

The dictionary defines coma as "a state of unconsciousness from which the patient cannot be aroused." The Institutes defines coma as "a state of unconsciousness from which the patient has not yet been aroused ."

Coma due to brain injury is not an isolated phenomenon, but is instead an integral part of the unbroken continuum that extends from death and profound coma at one end of the spectrum to very mild brain injury and normality at the other.