There is never a wrong time to think about preventing TBI, even after a person sustains one. In fact, prevention of another TBI is so important that all risks should be minimized as much as possible.

Any home with elderly residents needs to be checked. Slick surfaces should be avoided, as should throw rugs with edges that can cause someone to trip and fall. There should be safety bars in the bath, as well as a non-stick surface. If an elderly person cannot walk steadily, a walker can sometimes be useful.

If there are small children in the house, it is imperative that guns are kept locked and unloaded, if there are guns in the house.

To avoid falls at any age, use a step-stool with a grab-bar to reach objects on high shelves, and install handrails on stairways. To protect small children, install window guards to keep them from falling out of open windows and use safety gates at the top and bottom of stairs when young children are around.

All children riding bicycles should wear helmets. They should also wear helmets when skateboarding, rollerblading, or any other similar activity. This includes skiing, snowboarding, and horseback riding. Adults engaged in these activities should also wear helmets.

School officials and others who are working with young people playing sports need to be very aware of the risk of head injury. Any young person who gets hit in the head or falls and hits their head almost certainly should not return to the game he is playing. If there is any question, medical clearance should be obtained prior to the person’s return to the sport.

No one should drink and drive, especially not young drivers. Parents or other adults should make every attempt to keep people who have had too much to drink away from the wheel of the car. Having a designated driver who stays sober is a good idea.

People in automobiles must wear their seatbelts, so they are not ejected from the car in a crash. Parents should buckle their children into age appropriate booster or safety seats. Motorcyclists should wear helmets.

Just to give an idea about the effectiveness of motorcycle helmets in the case of an accident, at one American university hospital, the injury severity score for each patient was calculated, and it correlated with the length of the patient's stay and with the cost of the patient's hospitalization. The injury severity score for head and neck injuries was significantly higher for patients who had not worn helmets. Patients who had worn helmets during their crash had average hospital costs of about $31,000, whereas those without helmets had costs of over $37,000.

The difference in injury severity and cost of treatment was even more pronounced in terms of rehabilitation. Average costs for un-helmeted riders in rehab were about $43,000 as opposed to about $23,000 for riders with helmets.

Prevention of TBI pays in every way.

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