HBO Documentary had a great show on TBI. Its called Coma. It follws 4 stories of individuals with TBI. One man fell from a balcony, a car accident, and the other 2 I can't remember but, a very interesting show. The degree of injury in each case was so different. The struggles that I have been talking about have all been covered in this show. There are even follow ups on the internet regarding these 4 individuals. This documentary goes into the doctor interviews and the meetings with the family. 4 different outcomes. You get to see the anguish of being told the loved one will never wake up. The treatments, the constant care. You watch familes torn apart, people walk away and a fiance stick by her man. The man that fell from the balcony has a great follow up on he internet. His fiance stayed, they are married and living on their own. He has severe hearing loss as well as a Brain injury that has changed his physical features as well. I have been searching online to see why the facial features are so dramactically changed in some individuals. If you look at Jeremy in his before and after picures it is almost like looking at a different child. I haven't been able to find anything on that so now im on a mission to find some kind of article about this. S has changed dramatically as well.
According to a CDC report. 1.7 million people suffer a TBI each year.
The most common causes of TBI in the U.S. include violence, transportation accidents, construction, and sports. Motor bikes are major causes, increasing in significance in developing countries as other causes reduce. The estimates that between 1.6 and 3.8 million traumatic brain injuries each year are a result of sports and recreation activities in the US. In children aged two to four, falls are the most common cause of TBI, while in older children traffic accidents compete with falls for this position.^] TBI is the third most common injury to result from child abuse. Abuse causes 19% of cases of pediatric brain trauma, and the death rate is higher among these cases. Domestic violence is another cause of TBI, as are work-related and industrial accidents. Firearms and blast injuries from explosions are other causes of TBI, which is the leading cause of death and disability in war zones According to Representative Bill Pascrell (Democrat, NJ), TBI is "the signature injury of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan." There is a promising technology called activation database guided EEG biofeedback which has been documented to return a TBI's auditory memory ability to above the control group's performance.