Information and links: About Brain Injury

• Traumatic Brain Injury (T.B.I.) Brain damage may be caused by a wide range of events. Most commonly the causes of localized brain damage are physical trauma (Traumatic Brain Injury), aneurysm, stroke, surgery, neurological illness, and various neurotoxins. 

• Brain injury occurs suddenly, without warning. In an instant life is changed, forever. Everyday we participate in activities that produce endless risks for sustaining a brain injury; events include a car accident while driving to the grocery store, a fall from a bike, or a blow to the head. Brain injury has become a significant medical and societal concern within the last 30 years. With advances in medical technology, many people who would have died are now surviving severe brain injuries. At times the cost is astronomical: financially, socially and emotionally.
• It is estimated that thousands of Canadians incur a traumatic brain injury each year the majority being young adults. They will have a normal life expectancy but will require special care. A majority of bicyclists who die each year, die of brain injuries. Most of the serious brain injuries can be prevented or lessened by wearing a helmet. Brain injury affects a significant number of people each year and the numbers are reaching epidemic proportions.

TBI can happen to anyone at anytime and can have life changing consequences for the individual, their family and friends.


Here are a few links to articles and sites about TBI:
Brain Injury Association Of Canada 
Brainstreams