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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have released a new report this month that emergency room visits for traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), like concussions, by children have increased substantially over the past decade.
The age group up to 19 years old saw the ER for TBIs 153,373 times in 2001 and 248,418 in 2009. This is a 62% rise. The numbers may be due to several factors besides danger, including the increased prevalence of dangerous sports, or an increased insistence on the part of coaches and parents to visit the hospital for injuries. Still, the aggregate increase is worthy of addressing.
Children's brains are more resilient to damage than are older individuals' brains, but recovery takes longer and they are also more susceptible to long-term impairment in the areas of "memory, behavior, learning, and/or emotions." This is perhaps because children are "more vulnerable to the chemical changes that occur following a TBI."
Males, who account for 71% of TBI visits to the ER, were injured most while playing football of biking. Females, on the other hand, were injured most often while playing soccer, basketball, or biking. 70.5% of kids treated for TBI were between the ages of 10 and 19.
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