A coup brain injury is one that occurs at the site of an impact to the head, while a contrecoup injury is one that occurs at the side opposite to the site of the impact. A contrecoup injury mostly ...

And so every brain injury is different,” Kostrzewski said. “Mine’s considered a coup-contrecoup, so all four sides of my brain are damaged. So I learned to read, talk, walk again from 18 on.” ...

Greene sustained injuries deep in his brain stem and suffered a coup-contrecoup traumatic brain injury, which is caused when the brain bounces back and forth against the skull. When he emerged ...