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What is an ABI?
An acquired brain injury (ABI) is any sudden damage to the brain received during a person’s lifetime, but not as a result of birth trauma.
It may result from trauma to the head, through a road traffic accident, assault or other causes, such as a stroke, brain haemorrhage, infection, lack of oxygen or tumours in the brain.
The most frequent type of acquired brain injury is one arising from physical trauma to the head which is also called “traumatic brain injury” (TBI).
Symptoms/consequences
All brain injuries can be extremely serious but symptoms are not uniform as brain injuries are varied and complex. The consequences are also extremely varied. People who have survived a traumatic brain injury commonly have symptoms such as;
Cognition
Slowed processing and co-ordination of thoughts
Concentration
Impaired ability to concentrate
Reasoning
Difficulty in logical thinking
Attention
Easy and agitated distractibility
Memory
Poor or jumbled recall
Communicating
Difficulty with word finding and expression
Fatigue
Easily tired (but often unaware of being so) then sharply dropping in mental performance
