Concussion among children and youth in British Columbia /

BCIRPU’s vision is “to be a leader in the production and transfer of injury prevention knowledge and the integration of evidence-based injury prevention practices into the daily lives of those at risk, those who care for them, and those with a mandate for public health and safety in British Columbia”. [...] The purpose of this report is to provide details on Concussions, also known as mild traumatic brain the burden of concussion among children and injury (mTBI), occur as a result of an impact to or youth in British Columbia (BC) as a supplement to forceful motion of the head or other part of the the report The Burden of Concussion in British body, resulting in a jarring of the brain. [...] The the activity when injured, cause of injury, and 3 factors contributing to the injury; the nature of test appraises the linear component of the injury, body area affected by the injury and the relationship between injury rates and scores outcome of the emergency department visit. [...] Similar to the hospital separation data, the Specifically, patterns of injury among males and emergency department visit datasets are per visit females were described by time (year, month, day and therefore any multiple visits for the same of the week, and time of day), location of injury injury are counted as separate cases. [...] Among young children ages 1 among teens 15 to 19 years, organized sports to 4 years and 5 to 9 years, playing, climbing and account for the highest proportion of concussion dancing lead to the highest proportion of or minor head injury (33.2%).