Rowan's Vestibular Disorder is highly likely caused by his accident/injury.


Prior to the accident, he never mentioned anything like what's he's mentioning now. For example, we'd just done a 300 km ride about 10 days before and he was fine.


He's on such a low dose of his meds that they shouldn't have much affect like that, and there's no indication anything like that (or stroke or anything else) happened to cause his accident.


According to the CT scan of his brain, and subsequent scans, he was diagnosed with a diffuse axonal brain injury, slight midline shift, and a bleed on the left side of his brain.


In addition he had a fractured bone at the base of his skull and fractured cheekbones.


All of that indicates quite a hard landing, and Rowan's Drs, physios etc. are not at all surprised he is experiencing Vestibular Disorder now.


But, given all that, and the fact that he was in Post Traumatic Amnesia for anywhere from 3-5 weeks (depending on when they started counting) ... they are actually quite surprised at how well he's doing. He's still got a long way to go, but he's knocked the socks off everyone with how much progress he has made to this point.