Stats

Acquired brain injury has become recognized throughout the world as a problem of epidemic proportions and it has became known as the Silent Epidemic.  

Causes of Acquired Brain Injury

The true numbers are staggering ...

• Traumatic Brain Injury occurs 500 out of 100,000 individuals yearly in Canada with 18,000 alone in Ontario and every day there are 35 persons admitted to hospital
• Over 5,000 children in Canada will be seriously injured
• Every year in Canada, over 11,000 people die as a result of a Traumatic Brain Injury
• Each year over 6,000 become permanently disabled after a traumatic brain injury
• Acquired brain injury is the leading cause of death and disability for Canadians under the age 35
• Within the next hour, 6 Canadians will suffer a brain injury 
• An estimated 1.3 million Canadians are living with and an acquired brain injury
• Close to 500,000 people in Ontario are living with an acquired brain injury
• 1 in 10 people will know someone who will suffer a brain injury this year
• About 3,000 of these will be left with physical cognitive/and or behavioural consequences severe enough to prevent them from returning to pre-injury lifestyles
• 465 people suffer a brain injury daily in Canada, this amounts to one person injured every 3 minutes
• The highest incidence of traumatic brain injury are men aged 16-24, men experience brain injury twice as often than female
• The greatest killer under the age of 45, the greatest disabler under the age 44 and kills more children under the age 20 than any other causes combined
• 85% of all cyclists deaths in Canada involve a brain injury
• 1 in 5 sport related injuries are head injuries (concussions)
• Occurs at a rate of 100 times of spinal cord injury  
  
• When injury due to stroke or other non-traumatic causes is included, close to 4% of the population of Canada live with a brain injury