It’s fall in America, and that means football. With football comes questions and concerns about concussions in athletes. How long does it take to fully recover from a concussion? What happens if an athlete returns to play too soon after a concussion? How many concussions are too many?

But it’s not just sports where concussions occur. The most common cause of concussion in NCAA athletes is a car accident. The most common cause of a concussion overall is a fall. And a hidden demographic of people experience brain injuries at an alarming rate: domestic violence survivors.

Every minute, 32 people in the United States experience violence at the hands of an intimate partner. Roughly half of American women and 40% of American men will experience domestic violence at least once in their lives. M

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