Falls Often to Blame in Traumatic Brain Injury

Courtesy WebMD Health  Thu, 03/18/2010 - 13:25

About 1.7 million people suffer traumatic brain injuries in the United States every year and tens of thousands are fatal, the CDC says.


 

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