March is Brain Injury Awareness Month

Brain Injury Association of New York

Traumatic Brain Injury Central

Facts About Head Injury

Two million head injuries occur each year in the United States. Brain injury causes between 70,000 and 100,000 deaths each year.

500,000 people will require hospitalization each year as a result of brain injury. Every year 70,000 - 90,000 people will suffer life long physical, intellectual and psychological disabilities as a result of their injury.

Each year more than 30,000 New Yorkers suffer a head injury serious enough to be admitted to a hospital. It is estimated that 8,000 of these people will be left with serious or lifelong disabilities as a result of their injury.

Brain injuries are the most frequent reasons for visits to physicians and emergency rooms.

A brain injury occurs every 16 seconds; a death from head injury occurs every 12 minutes.

One out of 80 children born this year are expected to die of a vehicular related brain injury before their 25th birthday.

The typical person with a brain injury is a young male between the ages of 16 and 24 who is injured in a vehicular accident.

A severely injured person with a brain injury typically requires between 5-10 years of intensive rehabilitation with long-term follow up.

Brain injury kills more Americans under the age of 34 than all other causes combined and has claimed more lives since the turn of the century than all United States wars combined.