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What causes aquired brain injury?

An acquired brain injury is the number one cause of death and disability in children and young adults. Every year, over two million head injuries are suffered. When an acquired brain injury has been suffered, the brain functioning has been impaired. There are many causes of an acquired brain injury but commonly it will have been caused from a motor vehicles accident, falls, or sports injuries.

On the surface, an acquired brain injury can be mistaken for learning disabilities in children but there are very distinct and important differences in actuality. Unfortunately, acquired brain injury is not widely recognized despite the high prevalence of it amongst young people. Brain injuries just occur unplanned so depending on the severity of the acquired brain injury a family and the patient will have to completely adjust their lives.

Since the acquired brain injury often has the absence of physical signs, the long-term difficulties caused by the accident are sometimes hard to identify. A person's personality and lifestyle, the most basic psychological processes, memory, concentration, language skills, information processing, emotions, behavior, as well as many other effects can become permanent after an acquired brain injury. A very worrisome aspect of acquired brain injuries is the failure to recognize the extent of damage suffered.

Children that have suffered an acquired brain injury that return to their normal routine will often not be properly informed of the long-term difficulties that may await them in the future. Since a child will mostly likely remember everything from before the accident, it can be a long time before anyone notices problematic behavior indicating damage. An acquired brain injury that affect part of a child's brain, or part of their functioning, may not be needed as much at that younger age so it will not be as obvious.

By the time the child gets older and should be learning more advanced skills, if the acquired brain injury was not yet evident, it will start to become apparent. Years after the actual injury took place can go by before anyone discovers the long-term effects of the acquired brain injury are discovered.

Due to any changes that occur over time, acquired brain injury programs will need to continue to change, so rigid programs will not work. The unpredictability of how the injury will affect each individual and the severity of it will also make it hard to develop a non-changing plan. Since a person with an acquired brain injury already has developed learning strategies prior to the accident, developing new techniques to accommodate the acquired brain injury can be very difficult.

Acquired brain injuries can affect cognitive, physical, emotional, as well as environmental aspects of a person. When the accident or fall has occurred in full or in part because of negligence from another party, a legal expert should be contacted. The costs incurred because of an acquired brain injury can be extensive with permanent changes suffered.

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