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- Brain Injury Association USA - Promotes awareness, understanding and prevention of brain injury through education, advocacy, research grants and community support services that lead toward reduced incidence and improved outcomes of children and adults with brain injuries.
- Brain Injury Association of Queensland, Inc. - Contains fact sheets on issues relating to brain injury as well as information about support, training, accommodations, mentoring, and referral services. Suitable for caregivers, health professionals and those with a brain injury themselves.
- Sports, Fitness and Rehabilitation Center - Offers treatment for sports-related injuries such as ankle sprains, low back injuries, hamstring injuries, rotator cuff injuries, foot injuries, and neck injuries. Also offers custom orthotics.
- Brain Injury Association of New Zealand - Provides information, advocacy and support to people with brain injuries, family members, and caregivers. Has listing of branch offices, and offers Social Rehabilitation clinics in a variety of cities.
- Traumatic Brain Injury: a Mind Numbing Experience - A man relates experiences after receiving a brain injury when a 52 pound television set fell on his head. Includes basic TBI information and resources.
- United Kingdom Acquired Brain Injury Forum (UKABIF) - Promotes understanding of all aspects of Acquired Brain Injury and provides expert input to UK policy makers by setting up working parties and conferences to discuss any aspect of acquired brain injury. The Forum addresses medical, social welfare, education, housing, vocational, financial, legal, and other issues in which brain injured people and their carers require representation.
- Acquired Brain Injury Service (ARBIAS) - A specialist, non-government agency providing a range of services to people with acquired brain injury, predominately caused by alcohol or other substances. Aims to assist people disabled through acquired brain injury to live and function to their full potential in the community.
- Brain Injury Association of Connecticut - Promotes support groups and service systems for persons with brain injury and their families; provides education about TBI, its related problems and prevention; advocates for community and medical resources needed to provide comprehensive TBI care.
- Brain Injury Association of Kentucky - A non-profit agency serving those with brain injuries. Includes articles, events, and contact information for staff and support groups.
- Ski-Injury.com - Provides separate sections covering injuries from alpine skiing, snowboarding, nordic skiing, telemark skiing and snowblading. Also includes ski injury data from Scotland and advice on preventing injuries from occurring.
Wikipedia Articles
- Reverse bite injury - A reverse bite injury (also called a clenched fist injury, or closed fist injury) is when, after one person punches another person in the face, the skin (and sometimes tendons) of his or her knuckles are cut against the teeth of the person he or she is punching. The medical treatment of this injury is similar to ...
- Penetrating head injury - A penetrating head injury, or open head injury, is a head injury in which the dura mater, the outer layer of the meninges, is breached.University of Vermont College of Medicine.
- State and Territorial Injury Prevention Directors Association - Formed in 1992, the State and Territorial Injury Prevention Directors Association (STIPDA) is a nonprofit organization comprised of public health injury professionals representing all states and territories of the United States. STIPDA's aim is to strengthen the ability of state, territorial and local health departments to reduce death and disability associated with injury and violence.
- Injury prevention - Injury prevention is the implementation of interventions to prevent or reduce the severity of bodily injuries caused by external mechanisms before they occur. Injury prevention is a component of public health, and its goal is to improve the health of the population by preventing injuries and hence improving quality of life.
- Nerve injury - There is no single classification system that can describe all the many variations of nerve injury. Most systems attempt to correlate the degree of injury with symptoms, pathology and prognosis.