One easy step to keeping your head
Baca Juga
Horse riders are amidst those beingness urged to accept constituent inwards an awareness campaign drawing attention to caput injuries this calendar month yesteryear wearing a hat.
New Zealand based grouping THiNK! (the Head Injury Network for Kiwis) is behind this month’s Head Injury Awareness campaign, together with volition host “THINK! Hats on Friday” on June 22.
The group, formerly known equally the Head Injury Society (Waikato) Inc, has changed its advert together with is aiming to expand its caput injury awareness together with prevention programmes to the wider community.
THiNK!’s plain officers Marion Baird together with Te Awhina Paerata render an advocacy, back upward together with information service to people who are caput injured, their families, carers together with the community. Its successful Facebook page, operated yesteryear member Elizabeth Charleston, has been running for to a greater extent than than ii years together with offers unopen to other way for those affected yesteryear an injury to maintain inwards touching together with maintain upward alongside the latest word together with research.
“We are hoping that businesses, community groups together with schools volition larn behind our “THINK! Hats on Friday” campaign. Everyone wears a chapeau together with they donate a golden coin. The money raised volition comprehend the terms of printing much-needed resources that tin survive ued yesteryear schools, sports clubs together with the full general community,” crusade organisers say.
“We are besides offering presentations to schools, community groups or businesses that wishing to detect out to a greater extent than nearly Head Injuries together with the trial it has on the family, friends, workplace together with the full general community. The bulk of the speakers volition survive people who sustained a caput injury or remove hold had a household unit of measurement fellow member who has. Each speaker has a really interesting even to tell together with everyone’s even is different.”
The results of Waikato University’s Bionic inquiry written report to decide the impact of caput injury inwards New Zealand are expected to survive available adjacent month.
“We are looking frontwards to the outcomes of this written report equally it volition laissez passer us up-to-date information which has non been available before.
“What nosotros create know is that the Waikato surface area has the worst statistic for Head Injuries sustained from route together with farming accidents. Also, caput injury is prevalent inwards youth together with ofttimes goes undiagnosed. This tin get issues alongside social behaviour, schooling together with life inwards general. It is condom to tell that 78,910 children nether the historic menstruation of sixteen each yr endure from unopen to shape of caput injury.”
The grouping said that encephalon injury is the leading get of give-up the ghost together with or disability inwards youth (15-24 years) together with early on pump age. There are idea to survive 20,000 to 30,000 incidents of this sort a year.
“People alongside a encephalon injury don’t remove hold their caput wrapped inwards a bandage or a cast, so their injury ofttimes goes unrecognised whilst the symptoms tin survive devastating together with life long. Hence the soundless epidemic.
“A caput injury tin spill out to anyone, at anytime together with this yr it most sure enough volition spill out to someone y'all know. We promise that your business, community grouping or schoolhouse volition larn behind our Awareness Campaign together with remove hold a “THINK! Hats on Friday” on June 22.
“Our primary origin of income is through funding. We rely on your donations. We would similar to encourage people to move members or friends of the Society, which means that y'all are giving us a monthly donation instead of paying a one-off membership fee.”
Contact THiNK!: admin@thinknz.org.nz or hollo upward 07 8391191; www.facebook.com/THINKHeadInjuryAwarenessNZ
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June 2012 is Head Injury Awareness Month
June 1: The Head Injury Society, based inwards Hamilton is officially rebranding itself equally ‘THINK! The Head Injury Network for Kiwis’
June 9: International Event: International Helmet Awareness Day – Not a THINK! project, simply THINK! has a long history alongside riders4helmets (USA) together with continues to back upward this organisation.
June 22: National Event: ‘THINK! Hats on Friday’ – Fundraising together with awareness projection for ‘THINK! The Head Injury Network for Kiwis’ – Schools, businesses, companies & individuals across New Zealand can survive involved yesteryear each somebody wearing a chapeau (any sort of chapeau or headpiece volition do!) on Fri 22nd June together with placing a Gold Coin donation to THINK! (details below).
June 23-24: National Event: ‘THINK! Sport on the Weekend’ – Fundraising together with awareness projection – Sports teams, organisations, groups together with individuals across New Zealand tin larn involved inwards yesteryear each somebody donating a Gold Coin. Regardless if it is a rugby or netball team, equestrians riding at the local hunt, cyclists on a fun ride or a grouping of friends going for a walk or run – nosotros encourage everyone inwards New Zealand to actively accept constituent yesteryear getting physical on the weekend and making a donation to THINK! The Head Injury Network for Kiwis whilst giving idea to caput injuries together with how they are affecting thousands of New Zealanders every year.
June 26: Waikato Event: ‘Living alongside Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Brain Injury – Seminar‘ – Contact the THINK! purpose for details.
June 30: International Event – Global Picnic. Not a THINK! project simply THINK! supports this event.
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