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| Fulton County Brain Injury Support Group
The support group meets the last Tuesday of each month at 7 pm at the First Christian Church (room 104),at the corner Avenue B and West Elm in Canton Illinois.
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Brain Injury Characteristics: Just as each individuals is unique, so is each brain injury. Physical disabilities, impaired learning and personality changes are common. Frequently reported problems include: Physical:
Speech, Hearing, Paralysis, Headaches, Vision, Seizure Disorder, Muscle Spasticity, Reduced Endurance.
- Cognitive Impairments:
Concentration, Attention, Perceptions, Planning, Communication, Writing Skills, Short Term Memory, Long Term Memory, Judgment, sequencing, Reading Skills, Orientation. - Behavioral / Emotional Changes:
Fatigue, Anxiety, Low Self-Esteem, Restlessness, Agitation, Mood Swings, Excessive Emotions, Depression, Sexual Dysfunction, Lack of Motivation, Inability to Cope, Self-Centeredness.
Some statistics about brain injury According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2001): - 1.5 million Americans sustain a traumatic brain injury every year.
- Each year, 80,000 Americans experience the onset of long-term disability following TBI.
- More than 50,000 people die every year as a result of TBI.
- Every year, over 1.5 million Americans sustains a traumatic brain injury.
- Among those who survive, 80,000 people per year must learn to cope with lifelong losses of function.
- 5.3 Million Americans - 2% of the U.S. population currently live with disabilities resulting from a brain injury.
- Motor vehicle accidents cause 44% of brain injuries; falls, 26%; assaults and firearms, 17%; sports and recreation and other, 13%.
- An estimated 200,000 children are hospitalized each year with brain trauma and 30,000 sustain permanent disabilities.
- Every year in the U.S., 50,000 children sustain bicycle-related brain injuries; of those, over 400 die.
- Males are twice as likely to sustain a brain injury than females, and young men between the ages of 15 and 24 have the highest rate of injury.
- Every year, 50,000 Americans will die as a result of a traumatic brain injury.
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| Causes of Head Injury Pie Chart Every 15 seconds, one person in the US sustains a Traumatic Brain Injury.  Fulton County Brain Injury Support Group DISCLAIMER: This site is for information only, not for medical care.......Consult a Doctor for Medical advice. Fulton County Brain Injury Support Group offers the links on this website as a convenience to users of this website. We do not control third party websites and are not responsible for their contents. Fulton County Brain Injury Support Group does not endorse, recommend, or approve any third party website hyperlinked from this website and shall have no liability to any entity for the content or use of the content available through such hyperlink. To visit these sites simply click on the links. | | Steve Love 27 East Myrtle Street Canton Illinois 61520  lovestephan@hotmail.com
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