Three out of four domestic violence survivors who experience physical abuse sustain a brain injury. That injury is almost never screened for, almost never diagnosed, and almost never treated as the physical wound it is — it is absorbed instead into psychiatric labels that describe and palliate its symptoms, all without addressing its cause.
Domestic Violence, TBI, and the Case for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
75–80% of intimate partner violence survivors sustain a brain wound. Up to 1.6 million a year — a number that may rival combat and contact-sports TBI combined. The problem isn’t a mystery: it’s invisibility. HBOT — already backed by 29 peer-reviewed studies — is the treatment nobody’s funding for this population.
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