Brain Injury Association of America

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About the Brain Injury Association of America

Founded in 1980, the Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA) is the leading national organization serving and representing individuals, families and professionals who are touched by a life-altering, often devastating, traumatic brain injury (TBI). Together with its network of more than 40 chartered state affiliates, as well as hundreds of local chapters and support groups across the country, the BIAA provides information, education and support to assist the 5.3 million Americans currently living with traumatic brain injury and their families.

If you or someone you love has sustained a brain injury, please call the Brain Injury Association of America at 1.800. 444.6443 for information and resources and/or visit, www.biausa.org.

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a growing public health problem in U.S. military and civilian populations.

The standard of care is early, intensive acute treatment and rehabilitation followed by timely post acute rehabilitation of sufficient scope, duration and intensity to restore maximum function and accommodate residual disability. To optimize their independence and maintain good health throughout their lives, individuals with brain injury need access to a full continuum of care as well as intermittent or lifelong community-based information, resources, services and supports.

The complex nature of TBI necessitates treatment by an interdisciplinary team of highly experienced and specialized clinicians. In the past, the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs have contracted with private sector clinicians rather than attempt to replicate the many and varied programs and services that make up the TBI continuum of care. Now is the time to expand those cooperative relationships to avoid treatment delays, unnecessarily high levels of disability, and greater taxpayer burden in the years to come.

The Brain Injury Association of America urges Congress to facilitate greater public and private cooperation in all aspects of brain injury: awareness, education, treatment and research. America’s service members with TBI and the millions of children and adults who are injured in the U.S. each year deserve no less.