Head injury is a leading cause of death and disability in Korea. It usually results from an avoidable accident. Epidemiologic data on the head injury is important for the effective reduction of this controllable disaster. The aim of this study is to estimate the incidence of head injury in Korea. Data on the incidence of the traffic accidents were collected from Traffic Accident Statistics 1998...

OBJECTIVE To explore the hypothesis that medically attended head injury in young children may be causal in the later development of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING Health improvement network database (1988-2003), a longitudinal UK general practice dataset. PARTICIPANTS All children registered in the database from birth until their 10th ...

Serious injury to the head is a national health problem with enormous emotional, fiscal, and physical consequences. For this special issue of PHYSICAL THERAPY, serious head injury is defined as trauma to the head with presumed brain involvement. Complete statistical data about head injury in the United States are not available. In the last decade, two national surveys have been done to determin...