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How Common is Traumatic Brain Injury?

Saturday, February 27, 2010

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Traumatic brain injury or head injury can happen to anyone. More than a thousand of people experience a life long disability and even die because of this incident. Statistics reported by the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control indicate that the number one leading cause of head injury is falls at 28%. Babies and toddlers particularly are prone of falls and/or are victims of violent shaking resulting in head injury. Motor vehicular-traffic crash is the second leading cause of head injury at 20%.

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