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• what
• where,
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• and why

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Every 15 seconds someone sustains a brain injury in the U.S.; every five minutes, one of those people will die and another will become permanently disabled. (Source: The Neurotrauma Law Nexus)

According to the Brain Injury Association, USA, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has recently estimated that there are 5.1 million persons living with long term, severe disability as a result of brain injury, and as many as 6.5 million persons living with some form of injury, including mild and moderate brain injuries. (source: biausa)  Multiply that by the number of people every individual life touches and we find the number of people whose lives are affected in some way by brain injury to be unimaginable.

According to the Brain Injury Association of Pennsylvania, an estimated 2,000 fatalities occur due to traumatic brain injury each year in Pennsylvania. Also, more than 41,000 people are treated in Pennsylvania hospital emergency rooms for concussion and mild brain injury and almost 8,000 hospitalized each year due to traumatic brain injuries sustained in car accidents, work place accidents, falls, assaults, sports accidents and other injuries.

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