Traumatic Brain Injury and Domestic Violence

The Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence recently published a tip sheet in the Spring 2012 edition of PA Academy of Family Physicans Magazine, available on their website on pages 20-21.  They have presented other information about TBI and DV, and continue to be a useful resource.  It estimates that 36% of domestic violence survivors sustain injuries to the head, neck, or face.  The most severeTBI symptoms include post-traumatic amnesia beyond one week, open head injuries, intracranial contusions, lacerations, hematomas, hemorrhages, and diffuse axonal injuries.

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  1. I wonder how many times first-responders mis-interrupt Traumatic Brain Injury for the effects of drug and alcohol use or Mental Retardation/Developmental Disabilities instead of the result of injury or strangulation???

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  2. Among the different injuries that a person is most likely to suffer, having a traumatic brain injury can possibly be the worst. This is because the brain, being the central control of the body needs to be functioning normally at all times, and an injury to it would cause so many ill-effects both on the physical and mental state of the person.

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