My ex used to beat me up and gave me a concussion once and I had to go to hospital. When I got to the hospital the staff decided I was suspicious when I told them my girlfriend had done this to me, so they called the police ON ME. It is a total Orwellian nightmare for abused men in Canada. You are part of this problem.
Care to provide the true numbers on these reports/studies. I know the ones that you are referencing and you are misrepresenting these numbers to the worst degree. Your lies and disinformation is gross negligence regarding this important issue.
Just wading in here with some stats, though I have no connection to this campaign beyond admiring its power and simplicity. I'm an advocate and lobbyist on this issue (intimate partner violence and brain injury) in BC, and it is a HUGE struggle to find good stats that get beyond the broad findings of researchers. That is not because the issue doesn't exist, but rather because nobody is asking about it. Diagnosis/assessment of such concussions requires an approach that simply isn't happening in Canada. However, the Embrace Clinic in Surrey, BC specializes in women who have recent experiences of intimate partner violence, and they have stats. Yes, it's one clinic in one health region in one province, but their stats certainly demonstrate that brain injury is a common outcome of intimate partner violence, and that strangulation - which causes the most serious kind of brain injury - is a frighteningly common occurrence in cases of domestic violence. - From 2017-22, strangulation occurred in 55 per cent of cases seen at Surrey Memorial Hospital among 405 victims of intimate partner violence - Of the 480 patients who visited Embrace Clinic in 2021 following recent intimate partner violence, 60 per cent disclosed strangulation, head injury or both - Of the 524 patients seen at Embrace in fiscal 2022-23, more than 400 reported sexual, partner or family violence, of which 85 had possible head injuries and 115 had been strangled - Forensic nurses at Surrey Memorial in the same time period (fiscal 2022-23) saw 330 patients reporting sexual, partner or family violence, of which 160 reported head injuries, strangulation, or both - BC forensic nursing stats kept since 2015 have found that 65 per cent of people seen for incidents of IPV from the previous week incurred a head injury as a result - An undiagnosed concussion from IPV leaves a woman at three times the risk of a second one, and at nine times the risk for a third if that one goes undiagnosed as well
So important to bring this into awareness! Thank you!
My ex used to beat me up and gave me a concussion once and I had to go to hospital. When I got to the hospital the staff decided I was suspicious when I told them my girlfriend had done this to me, so they called the police ON ME. It is a total Orwellian nightmare for abused men in Canada. You are part of this problem.
Great video that totally brings the point home so powerfully.
With Trevor LINDEN'S support Floodlights can now draw attention and action to help end this disastrous issue..
Very powerful.
Care to provide the true numbers on these reports/studies. I know the ones that you are referencing and you are misrepresenting these numbers to the worst degree. Your lies and disinformation is gross negligence regarding this important issue.
Just wading in here with some stats, though I have no connection to this campaign beyond admiring its power and simplicity. I'm an advocate and lobbyist on this issue (intimate partner violence and brain injury) in BC, and it is a HUGE struggle to find good stats that get beyond the broad findings of researchers. That is not because the issue doesn't exist, but rather because nobody is asking about it. Diagnosis/assessment of such concussions requires an approach that simply isn't happening in Canada. However, the Embrace Clinic in Surrey, BC specializes in women who have recent experiences of intimate partner violence, and they have stats. Yes, it's one clinic in one health region in one province, but their stats certainly demonstrate that brain injury is a common outcome of intimate partner violence, and that strangulation - which causes the most serious kind of brain injury - is a frighteningly common occurrence in cases of domestic violence.
- From 2017-22, strangulation occurred in 55 per cent of cases seen at Surrey Memorial Hospital among 405 victims of intimate partner violence
- Of the 480 patients who visited Embrace Clinic in 2021 following recent intimate partner violence, 60 per cent disclosed strangulation, head injury or both
- Of the 524 patients seen at Embrace in fiscal 2022-23, more than 400 reported sexual, partner or family violence, of which 85 had possible head injuries and 115 had been strangled
- Forensic nurses at Surrey Memorial in the same time period (fiscal 2022-23) saw 330 patients reporting sexual, partner or family violence, of which 160 reported head injuries, strangulation, or both
- BC forensic nursing stats kept since 2015 have found that 65 per cent of people seen for incidents of IPV from the previous week incurred a head injury as a result
- An undiagnosed concussion from IPV leaves a woman at three times the risk of a second one, and at nine times the risk for a third if that one goes undiagnosed as well