From big budget Hollywood movies to Sports Center, public awareness about brain trauma is growing. In general, active duty military personnel are more likely to suffer concussions than their civilian peers. Military members often participate in physically demanding operational and training activities, not to mention the risk of blast explosions…
If you suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI) in service, the VA may grant you compensation entitlement based on cognitive, emotional/behavioral, and physical loss of functioning. For its most basic ratings criteria, the VA will evaluate your memory; judgment; social interaction; orientation; motor activity; visual spatial orientation; subjective symptoms; neurobehavioral…
By Rory Berry, Navy Veteran I recently had the pleasure to meet Melissa Walker, who uses art therapy to work with victims of TBI and PTSD at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. I was fascinated to hear how she was able to work with Veterans to provide healing for Read the full article…
Many veterans have experienced a traumatic brain injury or TBI, but aren’t aware of the lasting effects such an injury can have, even years later. There are a lot of ways veterans incur TBIs: car accidents, hitting your head during training, being assaulted, or being near explosions such as improvised…
The New York Times printed an opinion article by Dillon Carroll May 21, 2014, with a historic illustration of what combat did to a veteran of the Civil War, especially in regard to the Evidence of PTSD & TBI. According to the Times article, Edson Bemis, a union soldier, was…
