Harrisburg-based Aurelius Program aims to help veterans with brain injuries
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Veterans
Veterans on Labor Day: Pray, but Move Your Feet
Coaches 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.
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MEMORIAL DAY 2025
Memorial Day is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country. What can aid more to assure this result than by cherishing tenderly the memory of our heroic dead who made their breasts [and their brains] a barricade between our country and its foes?
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Rx Drugs and Suicidal Ideation
Veterans 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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Military Veterans: Your Brain Has Been Disconnected
When veterans do not suffer other physical trauma, their brain trauma often goes unrecognized. Being able to walk, talk, and eat does not signify a lack of injury. Concussion is not just a brain bruise; it is a serious injury with profound consequences if healing does not occur. It is time for concussion injury to be correctly diagnosed and treated.
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Concussion: Veterans, NFL, Havana Syndrome victims equally mistreated
The level of negligence in treating brain wounds continues unabated. The number of injured increases, along with budgets to diagnose, but not to treat and heal. Significant end-of-year investigative reporting reveals the continuing institutional negligence in facing the human and financial costs of brain wounds, whether from sports, war, or “unknown causes.”
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VETERANS’ DAY, 2024: A Day of Remembrance for Veterans Denied Medical Treatments Part 1
According to a 2022 report to US Congress with data provided by Dr. Steven Lieberman, VHA Under Secretary of Health, more than 796,340 Veterans have died from Diabetic Foot Ulcer (DFU) Lower Limb Amputations (LLA) since 2001. Approximately 93% of these Veterans were denied access to HBOT or not provided medically required ‘Informed Consent” about Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy. This is a National Tragedy which is preventable, but Veterans are largely and routinely denied access to FDA, CMS and Tricare-approved HBOT treatments, resulting in their premature DFU/LLA deaths.
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A Half-Truth is a Whole Lie
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.
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Veteran Organizations Have to Step UP to End the Suicide Epidemic
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
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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