H2000TBI & BRAIN

University students for TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury)

LEAFLET

Brain injuries, silent epidemic

Everybody in our society is strongly conditioned by hurry: powerful cars, motorbikes, highways that give us a big freedom in moving, knowing and meeting people. But for all this we have to pay a great price.
The Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a part of this price: it is the main cause of death among people under 40 (100.000 in U.S.A). Not only statistics of death are terrible: there are thousands and thousands of serious brain injuries every year and in many of these cases death could be better.
Only in the last 10 years resuscitation techniques have made great strides so that 80-85% of these suffering people can survive.
Who has suffered a TBI, can still have physical, cognitive, perceptual, behavioral and emotional symptoms, that change his life and the one of his relatives.

Rehabilitation is possible.

The challenge has shifted on prevention, (on diagnosis of long-term results), on pharmacological treatment and above all on cognitive rehabilitation.
Despite the big attention that mass-media devotes to rare diseases which torment only few people, our society hasn't still developed an interest towards the problems of rehabilitation of TBI.
Adeguate structures don't exist and professionals themselves are often unprovided, beeing TBI a new and very complex pathology. Then it's necessary to create a specialized and cohesive equipe that gravitates around the person and in which also the family has an active role.

Purposes.

The Association intends, thanks to the free work and study of students survivors to:

give information and moral support;
to encourage the use of modern facilities (like computers) for the rehabilitation of TBI and the re-introduction in life encouraging the acquisition of the best level of autonomy, personal, social, intellectual and profetional growth;
to organize conferences and seminars concerning the problems that a TBI suffering person usually undergoes;
to take care of scientific and divulgative publications;
to encourage, by media, the sensibilization on this patology and its prevention.

It is in our similarities that we find strength. 
It is in our differences that we find creativity. 
It is in our communicating that we find answers.

                                      Dena Taylor