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Programa de lesión cerebral

The Brain Injury Program at Children's Hospital Boston cares for children who have experienced a brain or spinal cord injury, from minor to the most severe.

More than 300 children with brain injuries and 40 with spinal cord or column injuries are admitted to Children's Hospital Boston each year. In addition, children are evaluated and treated in the following outpatient clinics: Brain Injury Clinic, Sports Concussion Clinic, Neurology Department.


	Injury Facts

	Lesión cerebral Every 21 seconds someone in the U.S. sustains a traumatic brain injury (TBI). That's 4,000 people every day. Leading cause of death and disability in children. 5.3 million people (2% of population) live with disabilities from TBI. Lesión en la médula espinal 11,000 new cases each year in the U.S. One thousand are children. 250,000 people in U.S. living with spinal cord injury.

Expertise across specialties

The Brain Injury Program brings together pediatric experts from a wide range of specialties -- including trauma and emergency medicine, critical care, neurosurgery, neurology, sports medicine, neuropsychology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and others. Through this multidisciplinary approach, the center is helping define best practices in the way injuries are cared for, from early response, through inpatient care and long-term follow-up.

Team members are actively involved in injury prevention programs within the community, the training of medical staff on injury care and treatment, and research with the long-term goal of reducing the incidence of injuries and improving outcomes for those who have been injured. The center is part of the Programa de traumatismos del Children's Hospital Boston.


	Las noticias


		Concussion injuries in youth athletes Bill Meehan, MD, of the Concussion Clinic in Children's Division of Sports Medicine talks about concussions and how the legislation can help student athletes.


		Related topics:

		Head Injury
		Dolores de cabeza
		Minor Problem or True Emergency

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Children's Injury Prevention Program

	Brain Injury Association of America
	CDC National Center for Injury Prevention & Control
	National Spinal Cord Injury Association
	ThinkFirst National Injury Prevention Association

	Massachusetts Brain Injury Association
	Massachusetts Statewide Head Injury Program


					Children's Hospital Boston es el principal hospital de enseñanza pediátrica de la Escuela de Medicina de Harvard.

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