According to a new medical report, visits to hospital emergency rooms for brain injuries have increased in recent years.<\/p>\n
The report, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, studied emergency department visits from a nationwide sample of hospitals from 2006 to 2010. During that period, the number of total emergency room visits grew by 3.6 percent, but the number of people seeking help for traumatic brain injuries increased by 29.1 percent.<\/p>\n
Researchers postulated that a number of factors could be involved in the increase. It is possible that there has been an actual increase in the number of traumatic brain injuries suffered by Americans; it is also possible that more people have learned that concussions and other brain injuries need to be taken seriously, prompting them to visit emergency rooms when such injuries occur.<\/p>\n
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