Brain damage or Brain Injury can be categorized as traumatic brain injury because all traumatic brain injuries are head injuries. But head injury not necessarily brain injury.

Brain injury can be divided into two types:

• Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI): This is caused by an external force such as hit on the head. This will resulted in the movement of the brain into the skull and then damaging the brain.
• Acquired Brain Injury (ABI): This type of injury usually occurs at the cellular stages. It is associated with pressure on the brain normally. It could result from a tumor or from neurological illness such as stroke.

Both of the injury is caused disruption of the brain’s functions. They are after birth injuries and not occur because of heredity.

Brain damage or brain injury that results from birth trauma or genetics is called congenital brain damage. Congenital means that the baby was born with it. So, if a baby has congenital brain damage, then it means that the baby was born with the brain damage.

Below are the causes of traumatic brain injury:

• Sports injuries
• Physical violence
• Falls or accidents
• Car accidents
• Blows to the head

The causes of acquired brain injury are:

• Stroke
• Heart attacks
• Neurological illnesses
• Tumors
• Infections
• Poisoning / exposure to toxic substance
• Choking, drowning, or strangulation
• Abuse of illegal drugs
• Aneurysms