Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the signature wound of post-9/11 Veterans, yet very little is being done to treat it.

Many times, the injury is put under the post-traumatic stress (PTS) diagnosis, which is like lumping a throat infection with a cold. You can treat the cold, but it won’t clear up the throat infection without proper treatment. They might have similar symptoms, but the treatments should be different. Treating a brain injury, which is a physical injury, with therapies for post-traumatic stress, an emotional injury, may soften the symptoms, but it won’t treat the brain injury.

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