Angry Robot

Voyages in Concussion Land: the homeless, Sidney Crosby and me

Tabatha Southey on concussions. Lots of fascinating details:

 <blockquote>        <p>The study concluded that 53 per cent of the 904 men and women it examined who were in homeless shelters had sustained a traumatic brain injury, compared with an 8.5 per cent lifetime prevalence rate among the general population… Significantly, 70 per cent of those people had suffered their injury before they became homeless.</p>   </blockquote>
• October 6, 2012, 7:45 pm |