CONCUSSION ALLIANCE
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Mission Statement
Concussions are a global public health epidemic affecting tens of millions. Both patients and providers face barriers to accessing current information about concussion recovery, leaving patients in pain, frustrated, and lost in the healthcare system. Our mission is to create resources to help everyone impacted by concussions learn how to manage recovery and to inform healthcare providers on current best practices.
About This Cause
The Problem Concussions constitute 70-90% of traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), which are a global public health epidemic eight times more common than breast cancer, AIDS, multiple sclerosis, and spinal cord injury combined. Globally, there are 1.77 concussions per second. Further, although concussions are categorized as “mild” TBIs, research finds that as many as 50% of patients are still experiencing symptoms a year after their injury. What We Are Doing About It We educatepatients and their advocates through our website, ConcussionAlliance.org, and our Concussion Update Newsletter. We are updating healthcare providers on current best practices through our Continuing Medical Education programs. Through our internationally recognized summer and winter internship programs, we are educatingthe next generation of healthcare, research, and public health professionals. We partner with researchers to support concussion research.