Acquired Brain Injury
There is nothing mild about injuring your brain
Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) can be broken into two categories:
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
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Motor Vehicle Accidents
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Sports
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Workplace injuries
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Falls
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Violence
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Concussion
Non-Traumatic Brain Injury
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Stroke
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Aneurysm
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Infection (i.e. meningitis, malaria, encephalitis)
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Anoxia/Hypoxia (i.e. heart attack, drowning, carbon monoxide poisoning)
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Toxic drugs or chemicals
Statistics show that 160,000 Canadians will experience a brain injury each year. (Braininjurycanada.ca, 2017). According to the Canadian Institute for Health Research:
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Traumatic Brain Injury is the key cause of disability in individuals under the age of 45
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Two-thirds of mild traumatic brain injuries occur in males
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Traumatic Brain Injuries are most common in the young and the elderly
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There is increasing evidence that multiple mild TBIs may pre-dispose to early onset dementia, later substance-use disorders and mental illness
