The Silent Epidemic Tell your friends about this story . Of these injuries, nearly two million affect the victim's head.
Brain injury is called the silent epidemic.
There are more people who have neurological disorders resulting from TBI than all other neurological disorders combined. Physical brain injuries are caused by any force which penetrates the brain or causes it to move. Closed head injuries can occur during rapid forward or backward movements of the brain, such as whiplash, or when a blunt object comes into contact with the brain, causing the brain to smash into the hard, bony surface inside the skull. Penetrating head injuries are caused by bullets or fast-moving, sharp objects which penetrate the skull. Both types of injuries can affect cognitive functioning, speech, language, memory, attention, reasoning, abstract thinking, judgment, problem solving, perceptual and motor ability, psychosocial behavior, physical functions and information processing.