Traumatic Brain Injury A Roadmap for Accelerating Progress (2022) / Chapter Skim
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4 Traumatic Brain Injury Prevention and Awareness
4 Traumatic Brain Injury Prevention and Awareness
Pages 71-80
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T his chapter focuses on the importance of preventing traumatic brain injury (TBI) from occurring through analysis of risk factors and the development and implementation of prevention strategies.
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Second, despite decades of important progress in understanding the mechanics, biology, and neurology of TBI, dramatically effective treatments to "cure" TBI remain undiscovered. Instead, available treatments focus on addressing symptoms after injury and on implementing rehabilitation interventions to slow, stop, or help reverse impairments.
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Other leading causes of TBI hospitalization and TBI-related death in those years included motor vehicle crashes and assaults (CDC, 2021) , the latter including such circumstances as fights, child maltreatment, intimate partner violence, and elder abuse.
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Awareness-raising and information campaigns aimed at promoting these interventions include CDC's "Stopping Elderly Accidents, Injuries, and Deaths" (STEADI) and "HEADS UP" efforts focused on youth sports injuries.1 The ThinkFirst National Injury Prevention Foundation has also been a leader in education and awareness to prevent traumatic injuries, operating programs for children, teens, young adults, and older adults on actions to reduce risk.2 And professional societies and sports associations have issued statements in support of prevention efforts and produced materials and toolkits.3 Maas and colleagues (2017)
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At the same time, it is important to recognize that helmet wearing may mitigate risk but not fully protect against the types of forces that can cause concussion, highlighting the continued importance of engineering advances to improve helmet efficacy in such situations as concussion and blast injuries (NASEM, 2014; Op't Eynde et al., 2020; Sone et al., 2017)
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• Wearing seat belts causes as many brain injuries as it prevents. • People with brain damage look obviously different from people without brain damage.
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Certain racial, ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic factors have been associated with a greater likelihood of holding mistaken beliefs about TBI, and thus need to be considered when developing educational interventions. For instance, a survey conducted in the United States found that being born outside the United States, being Spanish speaking, having lower educational status, and actively practicing religion were associated with reporting a greater number of TBI misconceptions on the CM-TBI (Pappadis et al., 2011)
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2017. Systematic review of traumatic brain injuries in baseball and softball: A frame work for prevention.
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2017. Effectiveness of an educational intervention on reducing misconceptions among ethnic minorities with complicated mild to severe traumatic brain injury.
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