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Every 21 seconds in the United States, someone sustains a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) ***

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) in the United States According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2014)

• 2.8 million Americans sustain a traumatic brain injury every year.
• From 2006 to 2014, the number of TBI-related emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and deaths increased by 53%.
• In 2014, an average of 155 people in the United States died each day from injuries that include a TBI.
• More than 56,000 people die every year as a result of TBI.
• Traumatic brain injury (TBI) disables SIX times more people each year than spinal cord injuries, multiple sclerosis, HIV/AIDS, and breastcancer combined.
• 5.3 million Americans currently have a long-term or lifelong need for help to perform activities of daily living as a result of TBI.
• From 2001 to 2009, the rate of ED visits for sports and recreation-related injuries with a diagnosis of concussion or TBI, alone or in combinations with other injuries, rose 57% among children (age 20 or younger).
• 300,000 sport and recreation-related concussions are diagnosed nationwide each year with a possible seven times more going undiagnosed.
• From 2006 to 2010, falls were the leading cause of TBI, accounting for 40% of all TBI’s in the United States that resulted in an ED visit, hospitalization or death. Falls disproportionately affect the youngest and oldest age groups.
• About 10% of all TBI’s are due to assaults.
• Motor vehicle crashes were the leading cause of TBI-related death for children and young adults ages 5-24 years.
• Young children, teenagers and seniors are most likely to sustain a TBI.
• Although everyone is at risk, males are approx. 1.5 times more likely than females to sustain a TBI and 3 times as likely to die.
• The average high school lineman takes the equivalent of a 25-mile an hour car crash in hits to the head each season

*** These numbers do NOT take into account other types of Acquired Brain Injury from medical conditions such as stroke, aneurysms, encephalitis or other infectious diseases, anoxix/hypoxic injury (lack of oxygen to the brain), toxic exposure, and surgical procedures.