Robert Beckman, Author at TreatNOW

What the VA can learn from the National Park Service

September 28, 2024 Robert Beckman 230 Views brain injury, brain wound, HBOT, HBOT Treatment, hyperbaric chamber, hyperbaric oxygen, Hyperbaric Oxygen therapy, Military Suicide, Suicide Prevention, TBI, TBItreatment, traumatic brain injury, Veteran Suicide

If rangers in the National Park Service were experiencing among their wildlife populations the equivalent of what DoD and the VA call “the suicide epidemic”, they would not ignore immediately available solutions. They would move heaven and earth to understand the crisis, and find antidotes or vaccines, or any treatments that would save the wildlife. Yet the culture in the VA – their “arrogance of ignorance” – prevents Veterans and their caregivers from knowing about or receiving immediate help available with HBOT and other alternative therapies.

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Free treatment for veterans with PTSD now available after $1.5 million in Kentucky funding

September 23, 2024 Robert Beckman 513 Views brain injury, brain wound, HBOT, HBOT Treatment, hyperbaric chamber, hyperbaric oxygen, Hyperbaric Oxygen therapy, Military Suicide, post traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, Suicide Prevention, TBI, TBItreatment, traumatic brain injury, Veteran Suicide

The free HBOT therapy is now available to qualifying Kentucky veterans at hospitals in Louisville, Winchester and even in southern Indiana. Arnold said the treatments can help to address the veteran suicide rate, which the latest data shows is 17 per day in the U.S.

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A Half-Truth is a Whole Lie

September 12, 2024 Robert Beckman 300 Views blast injury, brain health, brain injury, brain wounds, DFU, HBOT, HBOT Treatment, Healing with Hyperbarics, hyperbaric chamber, PTSD, TBI, traumatic brain injury, TraumaticBrainInjury, Veterans

Lately, polarized politics turns all problems into wicked problems. Thus, politics has become a series of half-truths dressed up as policy statements that become rallying cries and wish lists. Concerning Veterans, four half-truths that have become whole lies are instructive. The sad fact is also that the VA and DoD persist in continuing to repeat the lies that their research proves that HBOT is unproven, unsafe, ineffective, costly, risky, or worse.

On periphery, former NFL ballplayers diasnosed with CTE after their untimely deaths: Jovan Belcher, Bubba Smith, Junior Seau, Ken Stabler, Andre Waters, Aaron Hernandez, Demaryius Thomas and Mike Webster. Researchers have found CTE in 345 of 376 former NFL players studied. Center montage of "1000 yard stare" evidence of brain wounds from multiple wars.

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Labor Day, 2024 The Cost of Doing Business

September 2, 2024 Robert Beckman 381 Views brain injury, brain wounds, concussion, concussion treatment, CTE, HBOT, hyperbaric chamber, mild tbi, Persistent Post-Concussive Syndrome, polytrauma, Suicide Prevention, suicides, TBI, TBI treatment, TBI Veterans

In the world of athletes and service members, there’s a particularly odious reality: service members and athletes are expendable commodities that have to be replenished or taken off the books to achieve peak performance, to win. On this Labor Day, here’s a FACT CHECK ON TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP of untreated brain wounds. It would be a one-time adjusted cost of $19.7 Billion to treat and help heal all 877,450 TBI Veterans with 80 HBOT treatments.

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The NFL could run the VA, and vice versa

August 22, 2024 Robert Beckman 549 Views blast injury, brain injury, brain wounds, burn pits, CTE, HBOT, hyperbaric chamber, MAID, Medical assistance in dying, mild tbi, Persistent Post-Concussive Syndrome, polytrauma, suicides, TBI, TBI treatment, TBI Veterans

It is not hyperbole to draw parallels between the NFL and the VA [and DoD as well] when it comes to willful ignorance about how to both diagnose and treat brain wounds, no matter when suffered. And even they know that the earlier the diagnosis and treatment, the greater the likelihood that suicides, suffering and costs are reduced.

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How Hyperbaric Oxygenation is Restoring Brains damaged by AHI, Burn Pits, BLAST/TBI/PTSD/Concussion

July 26, 2024 Robert Beckman 850 Views AHI, blast injury, Burn pit exposure, burn pits, concussion, concussion treatment, Havana Syndrome, HBOT, hyperbaric, hyperbaric chamber, Hyperbaric Oxygenation, PTSD, repeated blast exposure, TBI, TBI treatment

The validity of using HBOT for wound healing to the brain is validated in the most recent research. Unsurprisingly, delivering oxygen under pressure safely and economically leads to effective wound healing. And numerous other interventions for comorbid maladies have a much better chance of effectiveness when the concussion cascade is interrupted and reversed.

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USMC Benefits from HBOT for TBI/PTSD/Suicide Prevention

July 15, 2024 Robert Beckman 837 Views brain injury, brain wound, HBOT, HBOT Treatment, hyperbaric chamber, hyperbaric oxygen, Hyperbaric Oxygen therapy, Military Suicide, post traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, Suicide Prevention, TBI, TBItreatment, traumatic brain injury, Veteran Suicide

This Sergeant Major’s results were so life changing/restoring that the WWB doctor began prescribing HBOT whenever requested by the case managers. Since then, a dozen and a half active-duty marines have been successfully treated, with funding provided by local citizens supporting the CFoNCE requests as well as other charities including TreatNOW located in Washington, DC.

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Veteran Organizations Have to Step UP to End the Suicide Epidemic

July 9, 2024 Robert Beckman 478 Views brain injury, concussion, CTE, HBOT, homelessness, hyperbaric, Hyperbaric Oxygen therapy, mental health, opioid, opioid epidemic, OUD, oxygen, pharmaceuticals, post traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, suicide epidemic, TBI, traumatic brain injury, VA, Veteran Suicide, Veterans, Veterans Affairs

If you want to help end suicides, you have to help heal Brain Wounds so that Service Members have a chance at a lifetime of health, not a moment of relaxation from pain and suffering. Now get out there and refer the brain wounded to us and lobby those VSOs and your state legislatures to join in the functional medicine approach to helping restore health and Quality of Life to the wounded and their families. Get the VSOs to fund and lobby hard at the state and federal levels to actually help heal brain wounds.

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EndDependence Day 2024

July 4, 2024 Robert Beckman 732 Views brain injury, concussion, CTE, HBOT, homelessness, hyperbaric, Hyperbaric Oxygen therapy, mental health, opioid, opioid epidemic, OUD, oxygen, pharmaceuticals, post traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, suicide epidemic, TBI, traumatic brain injury, VA, Veteran Suicide, Veterans, Veterans Affairs

It’s happening again. We can all be thankful on Independence Day, but a special group of people suffer a dependency that locks them into a constraining future. Veterans suffering brain wounds, and anyone with an untreated brain injury/Concussion/TBI/PTSD knows the confines of polytrauma, sometimes years after the injury.

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CALL FOR ACTION: Seeking to interview Citizens or Veterans with Diabetic Foot Ulcers (DFUs) which may have led to amputations

June 27, 2024 Robert Beckman 587 Views DFU, Diabetic Foot Ulcers, HBOT, Humana Military, hyperbaric, Hyperbaric Oxygen therapy, oxygen, Tricare East, VA, Veterans, Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, VHA

The US Veteran’s Administration, and too many hospitals, continue to mismanage the clinical evaluation and timely care of the estimated 2.2 million diabetic Veteran population at risk for Diabetic Foot Ulcer limb amputation. This failure on the part of the VHA has resulted in substantially higher Lifetime costs, morbidity, mortality and a tragic reduction in Veteran length and quality of life that is well below that of the Medicare civilian population statistical comparators as reflected in this report.

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