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Brain Trauma
Title: Brain Trauma
Category: Recreation & Sports / Health & Beauty
Details: Words: 1233 | Pages: 5.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Brain Trauma
Brain Trauma
Traumatic injuries are the leading cause of death in the United States for people ages 1-34. Head injuries are among the most frequent and serious causes of neurological impairment or death for adolescents and young adults, ages 15 to 24, and the elderly, 65 years and older (CDC, 2003). Approximately 1.5 million Americans sustain a traumatic brain injury (TBI) annually in the United States. That is at least one traumatic brain injury occurring every 21 seconds (Brain Injury Association of …showed first 75 words of 1233 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1233 total…can be done to reduce the cost of head injuries? The answer is simple. There is much to be learned from the cliché; an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Prevention is the solution to reducing the financial and emotional burden of a head injury.
References
Brain Injury Association of America, (2003). Causes of brain injury, Retrieved on Jun 15, 2003
from http://www.biausa.org/Pages/causes_of_brain_injury.html.
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