March 9, 2022
Youth are at high risk of brain injuries from sports, falls, bicycle accidents, motor vehicle crashes, farming accidents, and as a pedestrian being hit by a vehicle. Rural Missouri youth are our future farmers.
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) was diagnosed in nearly 18,000 hospitalizations of youth in 2017. Total hospitalizations were close to 224,000 that year.
2,810 youth died from brain injury in 2017. The total TBI-related deaths that year were 61,000.
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