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Alexander Balbir, PhD: Wounded Warrior Project’s Independence Program Offers Services and a Safety Net

The core services of Wounded Warrior Project’s Independence Program include case management, resource management, care coordination, home health aide, alternative therapies, and more, with the primary goal of helping service members and their families rebuild a normal routine, plan for and succeed in the long-term, independently. But the program is always there as a safety net if new challenges arise.

Alexander Balbir, PhD: WWP Offers Vets with TBI, Physical, Mental Health Issues Individualized Care

Wounded Warrior Project’s Independence Program does not have a protocol to work with service members and their families when they transition home from a clinical facility, but they do have a highly successful formula for independent programing that caters to the individual needs of their clients whether those needs arise from the vet’s neurological trauma or from emotional or psychological challenges that result from that trauma.

Sheila Rauch, PhD: Finding the Help and Resources Needed to Treat PTSD

Treating PTSD in post-9/11 and other veterans is best undertaken with experts in prolonged exposure and cognitive processing therapy. Experts in these therapies can be found in person or via telehealth through the Warrior Care Networks. WCN providers also share their treatment models with primary care doctors and buddy system programs to expand their reach.

Sheila Rauch, PhD: What Are the Best Treatments for PTSD?

Two of the most researched and effective treatments for PTSD are prolonged exposure and cognitive processing therapy. The first involves approaching instead of avoiding traumatic memories, the second working on changing thought patterns to reduce the impact of the trauma. With the help of an experienced provider, people can be successfully treated for PTSD.

Audio Described TBI & My Longest Ride: A documentary film

Karl Kajomo Moritz faced the ultimate life change when he was bicycle commuting home from work in 2010 and was hit head on by a car and spent five weeks in a coma. He woke up with a TBI and developed a healing plan with healthy eating, acupuncture, speech therapy, neurofeedback, and high cardio velodrome track riding.

TBI & My Longest Ride: A documentary film

Karl Kajomo Moritz faced the ultimate life change when he was bicycle commuting home from work in 2010 and was hit head on by a car and spent five weeks in a coma. He woke up with a TBI and developed a healing plan with healthy eating, acupuncture, speech therapy, neurofeedback, and high cardio velodrome track riding.

Can Meditation Help After Brain Injury?

Can Meditation Help After Brain Injury?

Meditation may hold some benefits for those with TBI, but currently there is not enough research on the ability of those affected by TBI to meditate or the impact of meditation on those with TBI, and the few published studies report different results, so its effectiveness remains to be proven.

Musical Healing for TBI and PTSD

Musical healing for TBI and PTSD

Music therapy is an evidence-based therapeutic application for the treatment of brain and psychological injuries such as TBI and PTSD. Substantial scientific evidence supports how and why music therapy works, but it also can be understood intuitively.