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BIAA’s ‘More Than My Brain Injury’ Campaign

BIAA’s ‘More Than My Brain Injury’ Campaign

March is Brain Injury Awareness Month, and the Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA) has announced that the theme for the annual observation of this serious affliction for the next three years, will be “More Than My Brain Injury”. The More Than My Brain Injury campaign seeks to help educate the general public about the struggles involved in living with a brain injury….

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Insufficient Follow-up Care for Mild Brain Injuries Can Be Dangerous

Insufficient Follow-up Care for Mild Brain Injuries Can Be Dangerous

Mild traumatic brain injuries, also known as concussions, are often not taken as seriously as other types of brain injuries. These injuries can occur during a sports event, a car accident, fall, or other type of collision and they can cause long-term complications if they aren’t treated. In order to recover, it is important for accident victims to receive both emergency treatment for…

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How Safe is Colorado? – Colorado Springs Injury Lawyers

A recent report, The Facts Hurt: A State-By-State Injury Prevention Policy Report, disclosed that Colorado ranks 16th highest in the number of injury-related deaths among the states. The national average is 58.4 deaths per 100,000 people, while Colorado reports 70.7 deaths per 100,000 people. While the rates in other states fluctuated- some for the better, some for the worse- Colorado’s injury death rate…

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Many Traumatic Brain Injury Patients are Later Readmitted

Many people believe that once a brain injury patient is discharged from the hospital by his or her physicians, they will no longer have a need for treatment for their injury. However, a recent study published in the journal Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation indicates otherwise. Led by Dr. Angela Colantonio, Researchers at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute examined nearly 30,000 traumatic brain…

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March is Brain Injury Awareness Month

Every year more than 2.5 million Americans sustain a traumatic brain injury. Even worse – 5.3 million Americans currently live with a lifelong disability after sustaining a brain injury in an accident. In order to raise awareness about the devastating effects of a traumatic brain injury, it’s been announced that March is Brain Injury Awareness Month. According to the Brain Injury Association of America…

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Brain Injuries in Young Children are Usually the Result of a Fall

A study performed by the University of California, Davis School of Medicine reviewed data of more than 43,000 children who sustained head injuries in recent years. The study found that falls were the most common cause of head injuries in young children. Falls were responsible for 77% of brain injuries in children under the age of 2 and 38% of the brain injuries…

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