List of Blogs

2024

Havana Syndrome: Part 1

What the VA can learn from the National Park Service

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

A Half-Truth is a Whole Lie

Labor Day, 2024 The Cost of Doing Business

The NFL could run the VA, and vice versa

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

USMC Benefits from HBOT for TBI/PTSD/Suicide Prevention

Veteran Organizations Have to Step UP to End the Suicide Epidemic

EndDependence Day 2024

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

Systematic review and dosage analysis: hyperbaric oxygen therapy efficacy in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder

Memorial Day, 2024 Lest We Forget

Pathophysiology of Brain Wounding, AKA: How is Damage Caused by a Brain Wound?

American Grit: Part 1: Combat suicide epidemic by treating and healing with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy.

American Grit: Part 2: BLAST Injury Explained and Healing Treatment Available

American Grit: Part 3: Florida Makes HBOT Available to Veterans: Funded Research from the University of South Florida/Tampa

American Grit: Part 4: Suicide Prevention by Committee: The VA/DoD Avoid Proper Diagnoses of both the Suicide Epidemic and Brain Wounds

American Grit: Part 5: More Evidence that BLAST is not good for the Brain!

Suicide Prevention by Committee: The VA/DOD Avoid Proper Diagnoses of both the Suicide Epidemic and Brain Wounds

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy May Be the First, Only Clinically Effective Treatment for Long COVID

How Big is the Veteran Suicide Problem?

Bad Trip: Expert says VA studies psychedelics but ignores proven Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy!

What the world knows that the VA does not: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is safe, effective and can restore health

VA Continues to Avoid Treating and Healing Brain Wounds

Phoenix clinic receives grant for hyperbaric oxygen therapy to help veterans

2023

CTE Plagues Heisman Trophy Winners and Families

NYT: Friendly Fire Leads to Brain wounding

Idaho Outdoor Fieldhouse & Summit Hyperbarics & Wellness

USJAG: Special Update

New York Times: USMC Blast Injury Update

Lest We Forget, 2023

BRAIN WOUND UPDATE #17: Military Suicides: Rates gradually increased from 2011 to 2022

BRAIN WOUND UPDATE #16: More Evidence: Untreated TBI ties to Cardiovascular, Endocrine, Neurological, and Psychiatric Disorders

BRAIN WOUND UPDATE #15: Suicide hotline botched veteran’s cry for help. An investigation found critical breakdowns

BRAIN WOUND UPDATE #14: Research Reveals Potential Links from Brain Wounds to Parkinson’s and CTE

BRAIN WOUND UPDATE #13: Holistic Total Force Fitness to Maximize Performance

BRAIN WOUND UPDATE #12: Links Between TBI/PTSD and Parkinson’s Disease in Military Veterans

BRAIN WOUND UPDATE #11: Suicide Risk, Mental Health and Military TBIs

BRAIN WOUND UPDATE #10: AVIV Clinic Press Release: Review of Scientific Basis of HBOT for TBI

BRAIN WOUND UPDATE #9 – But is a Concussion a “Wound”?

BRAIN WOUND UPDATE #8: “New” Discoveries but Old News to Scientists Studying Brain Wounds

BRAIN WOUND UPDATE #7: More Shortcomings in Concussion Consensus Protocol

BRAIN WOUND UPDATE #6: Other Than Honorable (OTH) and Relation to BLAST, TBI / PTSD

BRAIN WOUND UPDATE #5: Concussion, BLAST, TBI, CTE

BRAIN WOUND UPDATE #4: HBOT for Long-Haul COVID

BRAIN WOUND UPDATE #3: MEMORIAL DAY 2023 

BRAIN WOUND UPDATE #2

BRAIN WOUND UPDATE #1

IMPERATIVES: When “Certainty” in the VA Overrides Patient Health and Threatens Lives

Part 1 EPOCH TIMES: Blast Injury, Marine Injustice and no treatment for Brain Wounds from friendly fire

Part 2 EPOCH TIMES: Blast Injury, Marine Injustice and no treatment for Brain Wounds from friendly fire

Informed Consent: When is Silence About a Brain Wound More than an Ethical Lapse?

Traumatic Brain Injury is more than a Mental Health problem

ECONOMIST: Links between Rugby and Brain Injuries

Study Links Repetitive Head Injuries and CTE

TBI link to cardiovascular disease in veterans

Aptiva Health to provide HBOT for TBI in Kentucky

2022

BLAST Damage and SUICIDAL IDEATION

Putting the Brakes on Veteran Suicidal Ideation

Sucide Prevention Point Paper Veterans Day 2022

Hundreds of Thousands of Veterans are Dying from Diabetic Foot Ulcer Within the VHA when a Life-Saving Treatment is Available but Unused

REVOLUTIONARY SCIENTIFIC NEWS: New/Revised UHMS Definition of Hyperbaric Oxygen

A Case Series of 39 United States Veterans with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Treated with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy – Bested

Service Member Suicide Rates Undercounted by VA

Extivita’s 9/11 HBOT Veteran’s Video – HBOT News

Dear Mr. President and Dr. Biden:

Hyperbaric Oxygen Helps Stop Suicidal Ideation

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: HBOT Scholarships for TBI/PTSD-Brain Wounded Veterans

The PACT Act, Burn Pits, and Next Steps

Maryland is #8 with HBOT Enactment

INDEPENDENCE FROM SUICIDAL IDEATION

Special Report: Kentucky HBOT Legislation for Veterans

Lest We Forget

Memorial Day 2022: Suicide Prevention Funding

Burn Pits Breakthrough for Veterans

AVIV Clinic sponsoring PTSD Veterans

Press Release: Dr Harch Review mTBI/PPCS

Dr Joe Maroon Receives Award from NFL Physicians Society

Concussions and Mental Health in Youth

HBOT vs. COVID: Round 2

SEEKING VETERANS WITH DIABETIC FOOT ULCERS (DFUs) WHO HAVE BEEN TREATED IN THE PAST OR ARE CURRENTLY RECEIVING OR SEEKING TREATMENT

Long COVID patients stuck with symptoms seek treatment clues

New Israeli Study: Hyperbaric Oxygenation Can Dramatically Reduce PTSD Symptoms

Conference addresses why so many veterans are dying by suicide, how to save them

DR. Joe Maroon on HBOT for Anti-Aging

VETERAN SUICIDE PREVENTION AND BRAIN-WOUND HEALING: 2021 UPDATE

2021

CBS Eye on Veterans: HBOT and TBI

Long COVID, and How HBOT Can Help Relieve It

Hyperbaric Oxygenation for Anti-Aging and TBI

REMEMBER: SUICIDE PREVENTION INVOLVES BRAIN WOUND HEALING

News Release: The National Brain-Wounded Veteran Brain Drain

Military Suicides Up 25% Q4 2020

Significant legislative effort on Suicides

Moral Damage and Soul Wounding

Significant findings

Praise Mounts for Tuberville’s HBOT Access Act

As More And More Troops Die By Suicide, The Hardest Question Remains: Why?

Department Of Defense 2020 Annual Suicide Report

Murphy Accepts Hero Defender Award, Champions Veterans National Traumatic Brain Injury Treatment Act

VA SEC-designate commits to visit HBOT clinic

5 MYTHS: TBI, PTSD and BRAIN INJURIES

Congressional Focus on VA: HBOT for TBI

Surfing and Brain Injuries and HBOT

Israel HBOT Anti-Ageing Study and Protocol

Op-Ed: Are Marijuana Use and Suicide Linked?

VA Announces Listening sessions to guide VA SSG Fox Suicide Prevention Grant Program

HBOT helps get Riders Back in the Saddle

Lest We Forget

Burn Pits Protocol

Military Suicide: Take 2

State RESOLUTION for HBOT at National Level

Military Suicide: Take 3

Message to the Force – Secretary of Defense Memorandum

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BLOG #1: Brain Injuries can be healed

BLOG #2: Fundamentals of Concussion, TBI, PTSD, PCS

BLOG #3: Hyperbaric Oxygenation to Heal a Brain Wound

BLOG #4: HBOT Science, Experience, Published Research and Testimonials

BLOG #5: The Obvious Question: If HBOT Works, Why Aren’t We Using It?

BLOG #6: Special Operators at Increased Risk of Suicide

BLOG #7: BLAST Injury and Lessons for Patients and Parents

Legislative Alert: S.785 to Prevent Veteran Suicide

BLOG #8: Parents’ and Students’ Enhanced Healing Concussion Protocol

BLOG #9: Brain Injured Bill of Rights

BLOG #10: What Congress is Learning About Mental Health and Suicides

BLOG #11: Suicide Prevention: Some Simple Truths

BLOG #12: What Retired Professional Football Players are Learning about Brain Health.

S.785 Signed into Law; Urges VA to use HBOT for TBI

Press Release: American College of Hyperbaric Medicine: Ken Locklear Visionary Award to TreatNOW

Brain Injury and Informed Consent

Hyperbaric Oxygenation in the Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury

Gulf War Illness HBOT Help Available to Veterans

VA’s 2020 National Veteran Suicide Prevention Annual Report fudges findings again

HBOT and Anti-Ageing Research

Much to be Grateful For in the HBOT world