6000 a year injure brain in WA
Tuesday, 31 July 2012 12:18
Several high-profile accidents in recent months have thrown the spectre of traumatic brain injury under the spotlight.
Music guru Molly Meldrum suffered a TBI after falling from his roof and hitting a sculpture in his yard and WA radio presenter Eoin Cameron underwent emergency brain surgery to remove a blood clot after falling and being knocked unconscious at his home.
WA police officer Matthew Butcher was left brain damaged, partially paralysed and visually impaired after he was assaulted, and two amateur WA footballers have died in the past two seasons, both from a head injuries they received during local games. Each year about 300 people in every 100,000 sustain a traumatic brain injury, amounting to about 6000 in WA.
