Homeless people and their health care providers need to know more about traumatic brain injuries to help prevent and treat such injuries, a new study has found.
Category Archives: Traumatic Brain Injury
Acupuncture Helping Vets With Traumatic Brain Injury
The movie “The Hurt Locker,” which won the Best Picture Oscar in 2008, helped portray what our veterans are being exposed to during wartime. It’s easy to see, through the lens of a camera, why we see traumatic brain injury (TBI) occurring at such high rates.
Traumatic Brain Injury Signs Are Often Misinterpreted
Given an estimated 225,000 Californians living with traumatic brain injury (TBI), it’s hard to understand how the signs of TBIs can be missed, misinterpreted or simply ignored. And yet, they are.
A Traumatic Brain Injury Can Happen to Anyone
March is Brain Injury Awareness Month, a time for reinforcing the seriousness of head injuries, given that traumatic brain injuries are a contributing factor in a third of all injury-related deaths in the US. In addition, 3.1 million individuals are living with life-long disability as a result of a traumatic brain injury.
Researchers Turn Concepts About Head Injuries Upside Down
In the British Medical Journal, concepts about head injuries in sports are now being turned upside down by a group of researchers at Umeå University: Impaired brain function is rather a risk factor for incurring such injuries than a result of them.