Posts tagged injuries

• Iraq War Vets with Brain Injuries

  Ed Smith | October 13, 2006 4:05 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  We have lost close to 3,000 American Soldiers in Iraq, there have been about 20,000 wounded soldiers and now President Bush decides to cut the budget that had been set aside for traumatic brain injury centers that would treat these soldiers by half. The president has also cut $190 million from the Department of Veterans Affairs budget for 2007, even though it is currently underfunded and the...

• Concussions - Common Injury infrequently diagnosed.

  Ed Smith | October 12, 2006 3:51 PM | 0 CommentsSacramento, CA Category: Head & Brain Injuries
  

  A concussion is a common, yet frequently undiagnosed and unrecognized injury sustained in automobile collisions.In fact, in the United States traumatic brain injury, or TBI, is a leading cause of death for persons under the age of 45. If you or a loved one has endured direct trauma to the head, or been involved in an incident involving indirect trauma to the head, it is critical that you be...