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Brain Injury Common in Domestic Violence

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For educational material on head injuries in English and Spanish, go to www.odvn.org
If you are a survivor or an advocate looking for more information on brain injuries as a result of domestic violence, please contact Rachel Ramirez at [email protected].”
To contact Dr. Julianna Nemeth about the research, please email [email protected]



Domestic violence survivors commonly suffer repeated blows to the head and strangulation, trauma that has lasting effects that should be widely recognized by advocates and health care providers, according to the authors of a new study.

In the first community-based participatory study of its kind, researchers from The Ohio State University and the Ohio Domestic Violence Network found that 81 percent of women who have been abused at the hands of their partners and seek help have suffered a head injury and 83 percent have been strangled.


Visit Ohio State News for more details: http://news.osu.edu/

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