• mTBI afflicts an estimated 20 percent of U.S. soldiers returning from Afghanistan and Iraq.
• An estimated 300,000 Americans receive sports-related concussions annually.
• 1.6 million Americans sustain a TBI each year.  Most people who are treated at an emergency room are released, but approximately 290,000 are admitted annually into the hospital.
• Each year 50,000 die as a result of the TBI, and some 125,000 are permanently disabled as a result of the injury.
• An estimated 5.3 million Americans are permanently disabled as a result of a TBI — nearly 2 percent of the population.
• TBI takes a big toll on the American economy — in 2000, it cost the US approximately $60 billion dollars overall.
• The more severe the injury is, the more expensive it is to treat. If you were to experience a severe brain injury today, it would cost anywhere from $600,000 to $1.8 million dollars to care for you over your lifetime.

This information was supplied by the following organizations; please visit them for more information on mTBI and concussions:

• Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center  (http://www.dvbic.org)
• Brainline.org  (http://www.brainline.org)
• Brain Injury Association of America  (http://www.biausa.org)
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: TBI  (http://www.cdc.gov/traumaticbraininjury)