Martin Johnson is an award-winning writer and brain injury advocate who suffered an open head wound in a car accident in 1997. During emergency brain surgery, Martin suffered 15 mini-strokes that resulted in a frontal lobe injury.

After being told he would never walk again, Martin pressed on enduring life with partial paralysis on the left side of his body. Martin is legally blind and has a lack of feeling and fine tuned motor skills on his left side. Martin faces each day knowing he is at high risk for seizures aneurysms and strokes.

Since 1997 Martin has trained in the gym and bicycling to compensate for what he’s lost due to his brain injury. For 25 years Martin has encouraged other brain injury and brain cancer survivors by sharing what he’s learned from living with a T.B.I. .

Martin resides in The Augusta, GA area and has been published in Hope magazine and is a regular contributor to Faith & Fitness Magazine. Martin has also written the writing with a disability column on almost an author.com for the past four years.

Not only does Martin speak with brain injury survivors, he is an official ambassador for Promise Keepers and works with men’s groups throughout the Southeast. Below are a few speaking topics Martin shares about brain injury. For more information please visit: https://www.martinthomasjohnson.com

Brain Injury Awareness

• It’s okay to let go to move forward
• Living with a brain injury isn’t the end of life, this is just a new normal