Brain Injury

Brain Injury Association of Canada

Our mandate is to improve the quality of life for all Canadians affected by acquired brain injury and promote its prevention. As well, BIAC is dedicated to facilitate post-trauma research, education and advocacy in partnership with national, provincial/territorial and regional associations and...

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Everyday we participate in activities that produce endless risks for sustaining a brain injury; events include a car accident while driving to the grocery store, a fall from a bike, or a blow to the head. In most cases, brain injuries are preventable.

Concussion, the most common form of brain injury, is considered to be a Mild Brain Injury most often associated with sports. While the seriousness of a concussion is regularly downplayed as short-term dizziness or confusion, new Canadian research shows that the effects of a concussion can be observed as mental and physical decline more than 30 years later.

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) has become a significant medical and societal concern within the last 30 years. With advances in medical technology, many people who would have died are now surviving severe brain injuries. At times the cost is astronomical: financially, socially and emotionally.

It is estimated that thousands of Canadians incur a traumatic brain injury each year the majority being young adults. They will have a normal life expectancy but will require special care.

Wearing a helmet can prevent most of the serious brain injuries but sadly, the majority of bicyclists who die each year die from an injury to their brain.

Statistics indicate that the incidence of brain injury is two times greater in men.