BIRS supports those with brain injuries and seeks to prevent more

“There’s been some really good work done the last number of years in sports you know hockey and such, looking at things like bike helmets, looking at things such as car seats and that kind of safety, so different demonstrations there,” explains REDI executive director Craig Wood.

“We go throughout the community throughout the year. But it’s Brain Injury Awareness Month so we’re really doing a push right now to go out and do things like bike rodeos with kids, the importance of wearing that bike helmet and having it properly fit are things that we’re really trying to demonstrate here.”

Brain injuries can be acquired through any number of other means such motor vehicle collision, industrial accidents, in sports, suffering a stroke or violence.

Wood says intimate partner violence is increasingly being identified as a source of brain injury and they are working with the Medicine Hat Women’s Shelter Society to raise awareness of that concern.

Wood says to check the Brain Injury Relearning Services Facebook page for all the events they have happening this month.

by Chris Brown

BIRS supports those with brain injuries and seeks to prevent more

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