About Brain Injury
Each year more than 11,000 Ohioans are hospitalized with a traumatic brain injury. An estimated 196,000 Ohioans live with the residual effects of these injuries. Serious brain injuries can cause loss of consciousness, which can last only a few minutes or result in coma, which may last for days, weeks or months. Intellectual impairment, short-term memory loss, speech problems, personality changes, behavioral disorders and physical disability are common problems. Patients and their families often face a long period of rehabilitation. Most brain injuries are the result of moving-vehicle accidents, but falls, gunshot wounds and assaults are other common causes. Brain injury also can be caused by infections, bleeding or lack of oxygen to the brain. Brain injuries occur primarily in young people, who are more likely to survive after severe injury, but face a dramatically changed future.
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