Did You Know? World-wide incidence - 10 million TBI’s per year More than 5 million Americans alive today have had a TBI. Suspect this is underestimated due to mild TBI not being reported in many cases – i.e. sports concussions. In the United States: Every year approximately 1.7 million people experience a TBI (more than suffer heart attacks).We know these numbers are much higher! Every year approximately 52,000 people die from head injury. Every year approximately 1.3 million people with head-injuries are treated in hospital emergency rooms in the U.S. Every year approximately 275,000 people are hospitalized for TBI and survive. Every year the direct and indirect costs of traumatic brain injury in the U. S. are approximately $60 billion. 66% of service personnel in Iraq exposed to or injured by a Blast injury (this is a specific type of TBI & is the signature wound of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF)) 40% of service personnel returning from OIF & OEF show signs & symptoms of TBI due to a blast injury These stats do not include the many civilians injured in Iraq & Afghanistan Other Statistics: TBI occurs every 15 seconds in U.S. Death from TBI occurs every 5 minutes 5 million+ TBI survivors in U.S. Falls is a common cause of TBI in the elderly (65 year and older) Head trauma is the major cause of disability under age 35 The annual incidence of moderate and severe TBI is more than that for spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, and muscular dystrophy combined 2/3 of those affected are between the ages of 15 and 25 years old. Male to female ratio is 2:1. 72% are single 50% of battered children surviving TBI suffer permanent neurological, intellectual, and psychosocial deficits Only one survivor in twenty receives appropriate rehabilitation services. One severe TBI survivor requires between 5–10 years of intensive rehabilitation with long term follow-up More than 5.3 million people in the United States are living with disabilities that are unnoticed to those around them. They are living with long-term traumatic brain injuries according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https://facebook/TbiLifeCoach
Posted on: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 17:07:45 +0000
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