We are appealing to you to change the culture at the VA from one of “brain wounds are a mental health issue” to one of: “brain wounds like TBI/PTSD/PCS/BLAST/Concussion must be treated like a wound and healed using modern, proven, scientifically validated alternative therapies.” Brain wounds — TBI/PTSD/PCS/BLAST/Concussion — are wounds. They can be treated. The world outside the VA is treating them with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT), doing the job your VA cannot and will not do.
Read MoreCoaches routinely tell players: “Move your feet.” The VA and Politicians are fond of sending “Thoughts and Prayers” to wounded Veterans. It’s a good time for Veterans to pray, but don’t just stand there. Take charge. Don’t take useless advice. You can heal, but you have to Move Your Feet.
Read MoreThere should be no excuse for doctors and medical staff in the military and professional and college and high school sports that they remain “alter-ignorant” about how to properly diagnose and heal brain wounds. Concussion and CTE are hardly back-water areas of medicine. And the science and peer-reviewed research continues to pile up that Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy allows for the remission if not complete healing from brain wounds of all kinds.
Read More“Deja vu all over again.” Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) and Concussion research and reporting is following a well-worn path that leads to lots of money for research, billions of written words in thousands of studies — and untold numbers of avoidable deaths.
Read MoreCTE is a progressive neurodegenerative disease linked to repetitive head trauma, often seen in athletes, military veterans, and others exposed to repeated brain injuries. CTE might start with the first Concussion. Recent research on acute concussions by Dr Daphne Denham demonstrates brain wound healing and symptom reduction/eradication within four Hyperbaric Oxygen sessions.
Read MoreVeterans with brain wounds will talk about how much relief they get from Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, particularly the ability to get off the drugs that seemingly made them worse, not better. This applies directly to the anti-depression drugs prescribed throughout the VA. But there are unintended consequences of the prescribing behavior in the VA that go unreported, even to the Veterans.
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