Improving Sleep in Veterans After Blast-Induced Brain Injury
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From In Their Boots, Season 2, Episode 2, "Fractured Minds." Used with permission. All rights reserved. For more information on the In Their Boots, a documentary series about the impact the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are having on people here at home, go to
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In Their Boots,"Fractured Minds" This video, created by the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center, focuses on the ebb and flow of recovery from TBI and features Former Secretary of State Colin Powell as well as several medical professionals and individuals with TBI. From Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center, the TBI operational component of the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury. Used with permission.
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Transcript of the program here. Survive, Thrive, and Alive This project was developed by the Brain Injury Association of New York State in cooperation with the New York State Department of Health, supported by project H21MC06742 from the Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Maternal and Child Health Bureau. This material is public domain. For more information, go to
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Narrated by Lee Woodruff, this video shares stories with military men and women who sustained TBIs and how they are living their lives now.
Transcript of this video. Beyond the Invisible: Living with Brain Injury
A brief summary of current research.
Improving sleep: Initial headache treatment in OIF/OEF veterans with blast-induced mild traumatic brain injury
Ruff, R, Ruff, S, Wang, X (2009). Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development, 46 (9), pp 1071–1084.
This study looked at 74 veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom (OIF/OEF) who reported histories of mild traumatic brain injury from blasts. Seventy-one of these had PTSD and only five had restful sleep. Sleep hygiene counseling and use of oral prazosin reduced the number of headaches and improved both sleep and cognitive performance after an initial treatment period of nine weeks. The improvements were maintained six months later as well.
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