Posts Tagged ‘TBI Facts’
By Paul Stone On July 13th, 2015
While it can be easy to think of traumatic brain injuries as just an injury affecting football players and veterans, it is important to remember TBI is much more widespread. Each year over 1.7 million people experience traumatic brain injuries. Over 52,000 of those individuals die and 275,000 individuals are hospitalized for their injuries. Traumatic…
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By Paul Stone On January 22nd, 2015
Between 30-50% of all traumatic brain injuries are linked to alcohol use, and estimated suggest up to two-thirds of individuals who experience TBI have a history of alcohol abuse. Unfortunately, this also means a large number of those individuals continue drinking after their injury, which can be incredibly detrimental for the recovery process. After a…
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By Paul Stone On February 28th, 2014
Traumatic brain injuries may be making headlines around the nation, but the public is still woefully under-informed about the reality of brain injuries. The majority of concussion and TBI reporting and education is focused on athletics, even though traumatic brain injuries are known as the “signature injury” for veterans deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan and…
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By Paul Stone On April 22nd, 2013
Sometimes writing about traumatic brain injury facts doesn’t get the point across well enough. Saying that more than 1.7 million cases of TBI occur every year, as the CDC has estimated, just doesn’t make most realize how many brain injuries that really is. This is where infographics are the most helpful, when statistics are so…
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