Friday, June 17, 2011

Community Medical Center offers brain injury treatment for veterans

So many head injuries (but much better diagnosis, better treatment, etc from when I was in nursing school way back in 1972-72, and worked before that as a nursing assistant) .....

A reality of modern-day war is that more and more soldiers return home with traumatic brain injuries.

In a 2009 report, Pentagon officials estimated that 360,000 service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffered a brain injury during deployment, and 45,000 to 90,000 of those soldiers have lasting symptoms and need specialized rehabilitative care.


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Community Medical Center offers brain injury treatment for veterans

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