Every
23 seconds, a person sustains
a traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Every 40
seconds, someone has a stroke.
More people die each year from a traumatic brain injury than from all other cancers -- combined.
About 4% of the general population -- some 33,000 people
in Ventura County alone -- lives with a brain injury.
Whether it's caused by a motor vehicle accident, stroke, sports injury, aneurysm, heart attack, near-drowning, or terrorist attack overseas,
brain injury changes everything –
who you are, what you do, how you live.
Many survivors can’t keep their lives on track without assistance, whether it's occasional or ongoing. Life After Brain Injury is here
for them, and for their family caregivers as well, who are often
impacted as much as the survivors themselves.
We
believe everyone deserves, and has the right,
to have the same opportunity as all others to pursue
a rich, meaningful and
productive life.
That's why Life After Brain Injury exists: to support people with brain injury in their efforts to improve the quality of their lives.
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Here are just a few
of the faces of brain injury:
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