Many brain injury survivors and their loved ones find sharing their experiences with similar people helps them take on those day to day challenges together.
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Oh my, those are really scary statistics. But the blog is very clearly worded and welcoming for anyone looking for support after brain injury ; just the right length too. I find since my BI that, when seeking information, I want facts but don't have the patience for unnecessary detail.
Looks great to me. And Im a big fan of the the helpline and the Swansea local group. Though not sure why teh Swansea group is outside Swansea and so darn hard to get to? A group bang smack in the city centre would be good and would be accessible by rail and bus to folk from neighbouring towns and cities like Cardiff and Llanelli.
only one little pedantic point. In the above post, do you mean "similar people" or maybe "people with similar experiences"? Not sure I would want to meet people similar to me! Would drive me crazy!
If every 90 seconds someone is admitted with a brain injury and every three minutes with a head injury, does that mean half of admitted head injuries are also brain injuries? That seems quite a high ratio. There again my understanding of stats is close to zero so I might have got it mixed up.
That is the stats it would seem so. Clearly there is quite a variation like yourself I’m surprised it’s that high. After all people do fracture their skulls with no lasting brain injury. But either way it’s a lot any how.
The 'every 90 seconds' stat is for all acquired brain injury, so this includes things like stroke, brain tumour, ruptured aneurym, encephalitis etc., as well as traumatic brain injuries as a result of head injury.
Hopefully that explains why the ratio seemed a little high (and we could have used the term 'acquired brain injury' on the blog post to make it clearer).
As you rightly say, many people present to A&E with head injuries that don't turn out to have caused a brain injury, but often a seemingly minor concussion can have unexpected long-term effects.
I did write a respone but maybe forgot to click the send thing. Anyways, thanks for the clarification and link. The research looks very interesting. Im wondering if there has been any research since indicating why total numbers of brain injuries have gone up and why the percentage of women among these have gone up.
The overall numbers is broadly in line with population, increases what is changing is that it is equalising with the sex’s or starting to, In that less men, but more women as a % as to why that is?
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