Category Archives: Brain Injury Treatment

A new rapid test produces lab quality results using whole blood to identify biomarkers associated with mild traumatic brain injury, otherwise known as concussion. The results could help forward-deployed medics and health care providers at battalion aid stations and field hospitals decide which wounded service members they need to treat first and who needs to be evacuated from the field. Continue reading →

Life support for patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) may sometimes be withdrawn too early, when it's possible that patients could eventually recover, new research suggests. Continue reading →

Longer-term Evidence of Differences in Clinical Outcomes Still Needed The precise mechanism of the light therapys effects on the brain is also still to be determined. Continue reading →

Light therapy can improve connectivity after a mild traumatic brain injury, especially in the initial weeks following head trauma, according to new MRI data. Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) arrived at this conclusion with the help of functional MRI technology Continue reading →

Light therapy appears to promote healing in people who have suffered significant brain injuries, researchers have found. Continue reading →

May 31, 2024 Low-level light therapy appears to affect healing in the brains of people who suffered significant brain injuries, according to a study published inRadiology, a journal of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). Lights of different wavelengths have been studied for years for their wound-healing properties. Continue reading →

Jordan Knowlton-Key May 30, 2024 And that percentage, with variability depending on the region and referenced research study, may be roughly extrapolated to the global population.3-6 Although it is often thought that sports accidents are the most likely culprit, motor vehicle accidents and falls cause more concussions than sports accidents. Of those individuals who experience an acute sports concussion, nearly 65% report vestibular or oculomotor symptoms. Continue reading →

Traumatic brain injuries, including concussion, may lead to hearing and vision problems. Sometimes, these hearing and vision injuries are either not immediately apparent or require additional testing to be diagnosed, according to experts from the Defense Health Agency. These injuries may show up together Continue reading →

Its hard to explain how it feels to be behind an artillery piece when it fires. First is the roaring sound that no movie can ever match Continue reading →

This year's National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is going to include important reforms in how military service members are treated for Traumatic Brain Injuries, including the scarring created on the human brain when exposed to improvised explosive devices, explosive breaching techniques, or from firing mortars, artillery, and high caliber weapons. The new verbiage in the NDAA this year will be due to the advocacy of several families whose service member took their own life after suffering from TBI. "Frank Larkin and I are a part of this club that nobody wants to belong to where we had service members from Special Operations die by suicide after their histories of traumatic brain injury and blast exposures, Dr. Continue reading →