Brain Injury Awareness Month
March is Brain Injury Awareness Month. For more than three decades, the Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA) has proudly led the nation in observing Brain Injury Awareness Month by conducting an engaging public awareness campaign in March of each year.
What are the side effects of brain damage?
Physical symptoms of brain damage include:
- Persistent headaches.
- Extreme mental fatigue.
- Extreme physical fatigue.
- Paralyses
- Tremors
- Seizures
- Sensitivity to light.
- Sleep disorders.
Brain Injury Awareness Month is an opportunity to encourage broader implementation of evidence-based practices to reduce pediatric TBIs and their sequelae. Primary prevention efforts aimed at the leading causes of TBI among children are critical. Mar 15, 2019
Brain Injury Awareness Month — March 2019 | MMWR - CDC
Facts and Stats on Traumatic Brain Injury:
- 99% of NFL players in a brain donation program were diagnosed with brain damage after death.
- 26,212 non-fatal bicycling related brain injuries occur annually.
- 2.8 million traumatic brain injuries occurred in 2013, the most recent data from the CDC.
- 19.5% of high school athletes have had a concussion.
- 5.5% of high school athletes have had more than one concussion.
- $400,000 is the lifetime cost of a severe brain injury.
- 153 deaths occur each day from injuries that include a brain injury.
- 53,000 deaths from brain injury occur each year.
- 47% of ER visits were for brain injuries from 2007 to 2013.
- 3.2 to 5.3 million Americans are living with a TBI-related disability.
- 70% of all sports and recreation-related brain injuries were reported in people ages 19 and younger.
To learn more, visit https://www.cdc.gov/injury/features/brain-safety/index.html
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