It is a time to raise awareness about the risks of TBIs, especially those that occur during winter sports

May is a time to raise awareness about strokes. The Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA) leads the effort to raise awareness about brain injuries throughout the year.

Brain aneurysms are health events that can potentially cause widespread damage in more extreme cases. This is a condition where the blood vessel walls begin to weaken in the brain. Over time, a bulge forms on the blood vessel, which can grow in size. If it ruptures, the leaked blood can lead to a hemorrhagic stroke. However, brain aneurysms are more common than you might think, and most of them don’t progress to become damaging. What makes them dangerous is that usually there are no symptoms. In many cases, people don’t learn that they have a brain aneurysm until they seek treatment for a [...]