Brain Information

TBI alone costs the US is $76 Billion annually

Brain injuries exert a substantial influence on both the overall economy and individual employees and companies. The cumulative cost associated with these injuries amounts to an astounding $76 billion annually.

The cost results from immediate care, initial time off for recovery, and the majority from lost productivity over the lifetime of the individual.

https://www.brainfacts.org/diseases-and-disorders/injury/2023/traumatic-brain-injury

https://ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13054-016-1318-1

Brain injuries are very often missed in the ER

50% to 90% of patients with brain injury often go unidentified or undiagnosed in the hospital emergency department

A combination of factors including over-burdened ER and Urgent Care facilities, inconsistent guidelines, and time challenges, result in a staggering number of missed diagnoses of brain injury, including mTBI, even in clinical settings.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28390513/

Depression often follows mTBI

Depression caused by a TBI is functionally different than depression not caused by TBI, even though the same brain circuitry is physically damaged.

That means that treatments for depression that generally work may be less effective with TBI induced depression.

https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/scitranslmed.abn0441?af=R

8x incidence of Depression following a mTBI

‍Following a traumatic brain injury (TBI), employees are at risk for depression almost 8 times as often as employees without a TBI.

Depression associated with TBI is clinically distinct from primary major depressive disorder.

Employees remain challenged

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‍Following a brain injuries, employees often experience prolonged disability or absence from work, lasting several months. This impactful event has wide-ranging effects, touching lives, families, communities, companies, and healthcare expenses.

Workers remain on temporary leave, disability, or are out of work beyond the assumed 3 month window post-injury.

Lost-time claims are 2x all other claims

Untreated brain ailments cause a lasting impact, resulting in other ongoing challenges to worker health and productivity.

Claims for lost-time are double that of all other sources combined.

Work Efficiency is Decreased

Monthly work absence due to headaches ranges from 2.15% to 7.1%

Sufferers of more severe headaches tended to work through the headache.

https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/18/6918

Lost time was equivalent to 0.5 to 1.5 work absence days per month per employee.

On-the-job work efficiency is decreased with severity of headache, while overall productivity is impacted significantly by frequency of onset.