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Article: Traumatic brain injury, then and now. (research reflections).
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- The Exceptional Parent
- Article date:
- June 1, 2002
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Summertime, and the livin' is ... dangerous. Most children are home from school, and many zip along sidewalks and streets on bicycles, skateboards and in-line skates. So, too, do newly licensed teenagers and, presumably, seasoned drivers cruise the roadways. Accidents happen. And the result is often more than a sprained wrist or ankle.
The National Pediatric Trauma Registry in the United States tracks data on the more than 80,000 children who sustain trauma each year. According to Ronald Savage, an expert in traumatic brain injury (TBI), just as many children recorded in this databank sustained traumatic brain injury as fractures.
How many children ...