{"id":292,"date":"2010-03-10T10:35:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T16:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waiting.com\/blog\/?p=292"},"modified":"2010-03-10T10:35:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T16:35:35","slug":"hammering-home-the-seriousness-of-concussions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waiting.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/hammering-home-the-seriousness-of-concussions.html","title":{"rendered":"Hammering Home the Seriousness of Concussions"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>It\u2019s always good for the American public to be made aware of the dangers of brain injury, and that a concussion is not \u201cjust\u201d a concussion.\u201d And that\u2019s the message that\u2019s being taught this month, which has been designated Brain Injury Awareness Month.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthnewsdigest.com\/news\/Family_Health_210\/It_s_Not_Just_a_Concussion_-_It_s_a_Brain_Injury_printer.shtml\">http:\/\/www.healthnewsdigest.com\/news\/Family_Health_210\/It_s_Not_Just_a_Concussion_-_It_s_a_Brain_Injury_printer.shtml<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>It\u2019s never a bad idea, and can\u2019t be stressed too often, that concussions do constitute brain injury. One physician pointed out that of the 1.4 million traumatic brain injuries (TBI) in the United States each year, 75 percent are usually concussions.<\/p>\r\n<p>Public information about the danger of head injury and concussions doesn\u2019t have to be dry and dull. The Mission Children\u2019s Hospital has put together a clever nine-minute video for kids about why they need to wear helmets to protect against head injury.<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yr0YAoWe9XI\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yr0YAoWe9XI<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>A demonstration of how a brain is bounced around in the skull when a head sustained a blow  is done with jelly in glass bowl, and makes its point quite vividly.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s always good for the American public to be made aware of the dangers of brain injury, and that a concussion is not \u201cjust\u201d a concussion.\u201d And that\u2019s the message that\u2019s being taught this month, which has been designated Brain Injury Awareness Month. http:\/\/www.healthnewsdigest.com\/news\/Family_Health_210\/It_s_Not_Just_a_Concussion_-_It_s_a_Brain_Injury_printer.shtml It\u2019s never a bad idea, and can\u2019t be stressed too often, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,4,6,226,488],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brain-injury","tag-brain-injury-attorney","tag-brain-injury-lawyer","tag-concussion","tag-concussion-means-brain-injury"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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