post concussion syndrome
BRAIN WOUND UPDATE #6: Other Than Honorable (OTH) and Relation to BLAST, TBI / PTSD
This report brings you information about how service members are being separated from the service with Other Than Honorable (OTH) discharges. One organization, USJAG.org, is succeeding at ensuring that injured, ill, or wounded active-duty service members are separated with benefits, honors, and dignity intact.
Read MoreBRAIN WOUND UPDATE #5: Concussion, BLAST, TBI, CTE
BRAIN WOUND UPDATE #3: MEMORIAL DAY 2023
This report deviates a bit from a focus on Brain Wound healing. It steps up to a strategic level and asks a hard question: What is it going to take to change the way the VA thinks about Veteran overall health and wellness? More importantly, how do we as a society get institutions to open up to obvious truths and accept that there is an additional way to think more broadly and ACT to heal wounds, reduce costs and suffering, and restore lives and families?
Read MoreBRAIN WOUND UPDATE #2
This is the second of a weekly compendium of events, research, news, and insights about Brain Wounds: Concussion, TBI, PTSD. The focus is on Brain Wound healing and reduction of suicidal ideation; the use of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy as a safe and effective treatment for brain wounds.
Read MoreBRAIN WOUND UPDATE #1
Informed Consent: When is Silence About a Brain Wound More than an Ethical Lapse?
Extivita’s 9/11 HBOT Veteran’s Video – HBOT News
Extivita-RTP recently released a 9/11 tribute video honoring the injured who have defended America. The short video gives us all the feels, as it features several veterans telling about their experience with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy post-war.
Read More5 MYTHS: TBI, PTSD and BRAIN INJURIES
Over 1.2 million post-9/11 service members are suffering from brain injuries related to their service. According to the CDC, about 150 Americans die from traumatic brain injury (TBI)-related injuries each day, and over 3.5 million citizens every year receive brain injuries from falls, sports, accidents, assaults, and other insults to the brain.
Read MoreVA SEC-designate commits to visit HBOT clinic
Following their conversation earlier this month, U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) pressed Denis McDonough, President Joe Biden’s nominee to be the Secretary of Veterans’ Affairs (VA), during his Senate VA Committee confirmation hearing today on the issue of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) and support for it in the VA Department. Senator Cramer invited Mr. McDonough to Fargo to visit the HBOT clinic there.
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