March was Brain Injury Awareness Month and the UAB Division of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine (PRM) celebrated by setting up an information booth in the lobby of Children’s Harbor. Each year more than 3.5 million children and adults sustain an acquired brain injury, and brain injury continues to be the leading cause of acquired disability in childhood. The UAB Division of PRM provides services for children and adolescents with a wide variety of acquired brain injuries due to sports related concussion, trauma, stroke, brain tumor, and infection, among others, and acquired brain injury is the most common diagnosis for patients receiving intensive inpatient rehabilitation at Children’s of Alabama.
 
Pictured right: Janet Ezekiel, Children's of Alabama Sunshine School, and Angela Hamby, Nurse Clinician, Children's of Alabama and UAB Division of Pediatric Rehab Medicine