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Change Your Mind: World Head Injury Awareness Day 2019

Author -  Dr. Kaushik Bharati
Medically Reviewed by The Medindia Medical Review Team on Mar 20, 2019
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Head Injury Awareness Day

This day, March 20, we celebrate head injury awareness day. This ‘celebration’ acquires specific significance in India, which has the largest annual incidences of head injuries. Every day, 500,000 people are reported to suffer a head injury in some form or the other and it is the sixth most common cause of death, in the country. Panning across the globe in the U.S, every 15 seconds, a person suffers a brain injury as a result of severe injury to the head.
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No head injury is small enough to ignore or large enough to cope with!

Phineas Gage, a 25 year old, railway construction man was a quiet, well mannered, enthusiastic young man in pursuit of his dreams, until it all happened in 1848. The worker was busy packing an explosive powder into a packing rod (tamping iron), when a spark resulted in explosion, propelling the pointed rod (3-foo long) through his head. Just within a few seconds, the rod had penetrated his brain through the skull to exit the same by his temple. Dr. John Harlow who treated the victim for 73 days felt that he had very little chances of survival. To the surprise of the treating physicians, he survived the accident. However, became an obstinate, obscene, self-absorbed man following the accident. He continued to suffer from similar behavioral and personality problems until his death in 1861.
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