Blogs
Physical Education Teachers’ Awareness and Understanding of Concussions, and Concussion Policies and Protocols
Purpose: Our primary aim was to determine physical educators’ current level of understanding of concussion symptoms and response guidelines. For more information, click here.
Social Security Benefits After a TBI
SS Disability Benefits After TBI
USBIA Newsletter April 2018
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Traumatic Brain Injury News Reports and Participation in High School Tackle Football
Decreasing numbers of adolescent boys participating in high school tackle football, as reported by news outlets, may be because of increasing concerns about football-associated health risks, including progressive chronic traumatic encephalopathy. For more information, click here.
Report to Congress on The Management of TBI in Children
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) in children is a significant public health problem in the United States. A traumatic brain injury disrupts the normal function of the brain, and can be caused by a bump, blow, or jolt to the head, or a related injury. Children have the highest rate of emergency department visits for traumatic
March is Brain Injury Awareness Month
The USBIA Communications Committee has put together an exciting new campaign the aim of which is to increase the public’s understanding of brain injury during Brain Injury Awareness Month. It will accomplish this by using social media outlets to share the personal stories of individuals living with the effects of brain injury.
Helmet use in preventing acute concussive symptoms in recreational vehicle related head trauma
Helmets use has proved effective in reducing head trauma (HT) severity in children riding non-motorised recreational vehicles. Scant data are available on their role in reducing concussive symptoms in children with HT while riding non-motorised recreational vehicles such as bicycles, push scooters and skateboards (BSS). We aimed to investigate whether helmet use is associated with
Traumatic brain injury and the risk of dementia diagnosis: A nationwide cohort study
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) has been associated with dementia. The questions of whether the risk of dementia decreases over time after TBI, whether it is similar for different TBI types, and whether it is influenced by familial aggregation are not well studied. For more information, click here.
Traumatic brain injury linked to increased dementia risk
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of death and disability in the United States, resulting in more than 2.5 million emergency department visits and hospitalizations in 2013 alone. For more information, click here.