Brain Injury Awareness Month emphasizes role of treatment, rehabilitation and assets for patients and their families
(Vocus/PRWEB ) March 5, 2009 - Nearly 1.4 actor humans acquaintance alarming academician injuries anniversary year through falls, cartage accidents, sports and added activities, according to the Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA), which is celebratory National Brain Injury Awareness Month in March 2009. Organizations, including Allsup, a civic Social Security Disability Insurance representation company, are allowance to accession acquaintance about academician injuries and the accent of accepting analysis and assets for patients and their families.
National Brain Injury Awareness Month
Injuries to the academician can appear in the blink of an eye, and every 23 abnormal one being sustains such an injury. The affects are wide-ranging, affecting people's abilities for thinking, language, emotions, remembering, learning, activities and sensation. In addition, academician injuries can access risks for abiding diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's ache and added academician disorders. Brain injuries aswell may could cause epilepsy.
Currently, 5.3 actor humans in the United States accept a abiding or constant charge for advice with their activities of circadian active as a aftereffect of a alarming academician injury. To abutment patients and their families, the Brain Injury Association of America provides a arrangement of added than 40 affiliates and abundant abutment groups nationwide.
The BIAA offers the National Brain Injury Information Center at (800) 444-6443. This helpline is accommodating by brain-injury specialists who can acknowledgment questions and absolute survivors and their families to support, advice and resources. The e-mail abode is familyhelpline (at) biausa (dot) org.
The affiliation aswell provides an online area called, "Living with Brain Injury," that provides added insights on capacity such as types of rehabilitation, levels of medical affliction and medical terms.
Allsup salutes the Brain Injury Association of America and added organizations civic who are alive to advanced awareness, analysis and rehabilitation for humans with academician injuries.
Free posters highlighting National Brain Injury Awareness Month (March) are accessible through Allsup to hospitals, clinics and added association groups by calling Karen Hercules-Doerr at (800) 854-1418, ext. 5770.
To apprentice added about the Brain Injury Association of America, or one of the accompaniment affiliates, acquaintance Wendy Leedy, administrator of accessory services, at (703) 761-0750, ext. 622.
Contact:
Brain Injury Association of America
Wendy Leedy
(703) 761-0750, ext. 622
www.biausa.org
Allsup
Karen Hercules-Doerr
(800) 854-1418, ext. 5770
www.allsupcares.com
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