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What is an Acquired Brain Injury?
Acquired Brain Injury is any brain injury caused by a stroke, a brain haemorrhage, an infection, a tumour, lack of oxygen or an accident. Many Acquired Brain Injuries occur as a result of traffic or workplace accident, a fall, an assault or a sports injury.
What are the Consequences?
Most people with an acquired brain injury make a good physical recovery.
For some people, what changes is the way they think and feel, how they talk, and relate to others, their memory, and how they experience the world.
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Some of these changes may only be obvious to close family and friends. This is why acquired brain injury is known as a ‘hidden disability’ and can bring the injured person and their family many hidden challenges. This means that brain injury doesn’t just happen to one person – it happens to a whole family.