Brain Injury Awareness Month

It's March. That means it’s Brain Injury Awareness Month — a yearly effort to shine a spotlight on the progress and benefits of brain research.

Did you know:

• There are 5.3 million Americans living with the often invisible effects of traumatic brain injury (TBI).
• In the US, the #1 cause of death in kids is from TBI. Many of these deaths can be prevented through awareness.
• A person may look fine, but the internal damage to their brain can be life-changing. However, most brain injuries are mild, and most people recover in a matter of weeks.
• Nearly half of all brain injuries are caused by falls.
• In the military, between 2000 and the third quarter of 2020, more than 430,720 service members sustained a TBI.
• Brain injury, caused largely by improvised explosive devices (IEDs), has become known as the signature wound of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
• The military is working on hundreds of projects to research brain injury so as to better prevent, diagnose, and treat brain injury.

Learn more about Brain Injury Awareness Month.