Research led by Dr. Paul Harch, Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, has found that treatment with hyperbaric oxygen nearly three years after injury significantly improved function and quality of life for veterans with traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Read more →DoD Study raises questions about “dwell time” may be linked to mental health. By Lea Sutton “Dwell time” is the term used by the military for the time at home between deployments. According to a new Pentagon study, service members who have more dwell time may have
Read more →LANDSTUHL, Germany — During a firefight in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province in 2002, U.S. Army Maj. Kevin Kit Parker stood atop a hill awaiting a Medevac flight for an injured soldier when a bomb exploded several miles away. http://www.stripes.com/news/groundbreaking-research-looks-at-how-blasts-injure-brain-1.161678
Read more →A new study found there’s little communication between the military’s more than 200 programs treating brain injury or mental health. The Rand Corp.’s report, which was commissioned by the Defense Department, found redundancies between programs and recommends centralizing results to optimize care. “The good news is, there
Read more →The boom of fireworks is different from the roar of a bomb that blows off your legs. But on a recent July 4, they sounded pretty much the same to Josh Wells of Summit, a soldier who lost both his legs below the knees in Iraq four
Read more →A blood test for TBI may have potential for reducing CT scans in emergency departments, a new study has found. A small study published online in Annals of Emergency Medicine found that patients with TBI had significantly higher blood levels of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) than patients without
Read more →A land mine explodes near an armored vehicle on the battlefield in Afghanistan. The soldiers inside see a blinding flash and hear a deafening noise. Dazed, they grab their weapons and continue the battle. They assume they’re fine. But they might not be. Over the next few
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