What are the Leading Causes of Traumatic Brain Injury?

Written by Tom Crosley
Brain Injuries, Catastrophic Personal Injury

Attorney Tom Crosley discusses some of the most common causes of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in this video:

Leading causes of TBI include:

Falls (especially among the elderly and very young populations)
Motor vehicle crashes (especially in the teenage and young adult populations)
Being struck by an object
Assault

Together, these four event types cause more than 80 percent of all known TBI cases based on emergency room admission data collected in the U.S.

For more information about TBIs and personal injury law, you can visit our brain injury page.

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