STUDY:COMMON ACTIVITIES LINKED TO BRAIN INJURIES IN KIDS
--SUPERS--\nFile\n\n --LEAD IN--\nSCIENTISTS ARE LISTING THE MOST DANGEROUS ACTIVITIES AND PRODUCTS THAT CAUSE TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES IN CHILDREN AND TEENS.\n --VO SCRIPT--\nA NEW STUDY, PUBLISHED MONDAY IN THE JOURNAL 'BRAIN INJURY,' SAYS BRAIN INJURIES IN INFANTS TO 19-YEAR-OLDS CAN BE BLAMED ON FLOORS, BEDS, FOOTBALL, STAIRS AND BICYCLES.\nIT ALSO LISTS: BASKETBALL, WALLS, CHAIRS, SOCCER AND TABLES.\nTRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY OR T-B-I HAPPENS WHEN A SUDDEN TRAUMA -- SUCH AS A BUMP, BLOW OR JOLT, OFTEN FROM A FALL -- CAUSES DAMAGE TO THE BRAIN.\nTHE STUDY LOOKED AT FOUR-POINT-ONE MILLION NON-FATAL TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES IN CHILDREN AND TEENS BETWEEN 20-10 AND 20-13. \nBEDS WERE THE MAIN CAUSE OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES AMONG INFANTS AND TODDLERS.\nINJURIES FOR OLDER CHILDREN AND TEENS WERE FROM SPORTS AND RECREATION.\n -----END-----CNN.SCRIPT-----\n\n --KEYWORD TAGS--\nBRAIN INJURIES NON TRAUMATIC SPORTS HELMETS TEENS HEALTH \n\n\n