Brain Injury Therapy 09/12/09. The Department of Defense has estimated the number of Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom veterans with combat-related traumatic brain injury (TBI) could reach 360,000. While more than $1 billion has been committed to fund academic research, almost eight years after the start of the war on terrorism, neither the Department of Veterans Affairs nor the Department of Defense has discovered, much less fielded, a treatment regimen or protocol that provides timely, assured relief for the disabling effects of this "signature injury."
The good news is that some members of Congress, particularly Reps. Walter B. Jones, North Carolina Republican; Pete Sessions, Texas Republican; and Chet Edwards, Texas Democrat, have found and are championing a treatment that works: hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT 1.5) as pioneered by Dr. Paul G. Harch, a clinician and faculty member at the Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans. Sgt. Shaft via Military.com
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