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What is Brain Injury?

Brain injury can be a devastating disability, and given the brain’s complexity and the differences in the types, locations, and extent of damage, the effects of a brain injury can be wide and varied. Some occur immediately, and some may take days or even years to appear.

The most common after effects of undiagnosed concussion and head trauma are memory issues, drug and alcohol dependency, anger outbursts family violence,road rage and criminality. Any one of the symptoms can alter or devastate a person’s life, and brain injury is made all the more difficult by the fact that it’s often hard to see and just as often misdiagnosed or dismissed as “personality problems” or a perceived mental disorder. But in fact, it is a serious and legitimate illness where sufferers deserve all the help and support they can get.

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The Human Brain

The human brain in an incredible thing! It’s one of the most complex and least understood parts of the human body, but science is making new advances every day that tell us more about the brain.

The average human brain is 5.5 inches wide and 3.6 inches high. When we’re born, our brains weigh about 2 pounds, while the adult brain weighs about 3 pounds.

The brain accounts for about 2% of your total body weight, but it uses 20% of your body’s energy!

It sends out more electrical impulses in one day than all the telephones in the world, and it’s estimated that the brain thinks about 70,000 thoughts in a 24-hour period.

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Statistics

 

The Brain Injury Association of Canada reports:

  • approximately 5.6 million Canadians live with a neurological condition and 5 million Canadians live with a mental illness today – that’s 1 in 3 Canadians living with a brain condition

  • by extrapolating data from Ontario where 25% of the people living with a neurolgical condition are brain injury survivors, one can note that there are approximately 1.4 million Canadians living with an acquired brain injury

Information about Brain Injury Community

  • Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a leading cause of death and disability globally and, thus is of major public health importance.

  • TBI is more common than breast cancer, spinal cord injury, HIV/AIDS, and multiple sclerosis (MS) combined.

  • There are approximately 18,000 hospitalizations associated with TBI diagnosis annually in Canada.

  • In the province of Ontario where there are two million people diagnosed with a neurological condition; 500,000 people have an acquired brain injury (ABI) as a result of TBI’s and multiple mTBI’s.

  • In 2000-2001 brain injuries accounted for $151.7-million in direct costs to Canadians. Among all age groups, motor vehicle crashes and traffic-related incidents were the second leading cause of TBI 17.3 per cent, and resulted in the largest percentage of TBI-related deaths (32 per cent) in the United States.

What are the Leading Causes of TBI?

  • The leading causes of TBI are:

  • Falls (35.2%);

  • Motor vehicle – traffic (17.3%);

  • Struck by/against events (16.5%); and

  • Assaults (10%).