Brain Injury

A brain injury is any trauma that leads to either closed or open injury of the scalp, skull, or brain. These brain injuries can range from a minor bump on the skull to serious brain injury. The most common type of traumatic brain injury is a concussion, which results in a bad headache or unconsciousness. Contusion, which is a bruise on the brain, is also common. The most frequent causes of head injury include traffic accidents, falls, physical assault, and accidents at home, work, outdoors, or while playing sports. While most head injuries are minor, some result in prolonged or irreversible brain damage caused by bleeding inside the brain or forces that damage the brain directly.

Brain injury is not an event or an outcome. It is the start of a misdiagnosed, misunderstood, under-funded neurological disease. Individuals who sustain brain injuries must have timely access to expert trauma care, specialized rehabilitation, lifelong disease management and individualized services and supports in order to live healthy, independent and satisfying lives. 

The signs of a brain injury can occur immediately or develop slowly over several hours. Get medical help immediately if the patient: becomes unusually drowsy, develops a severe headache or stiff neck, vomits more than once, loses consciousness (even if brief) or behaves abnormally. Learning to recognize a serious brain injury and implementing basic first aid can make the difference in saving someone's life.

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