by Roro Fernandez | Oct 12, 2020 | Health, Wellness, and Readiness
Special Ops has a broken culture with explosive breaching that can lead to TBIs Soldier suicides have been linked to traumatic brain injuries (TBI) which are caused by explosive blasts, whether from IED strikes, firing high-caliber weapons,or working with explosives....
by Roro Fernandez | Sep 24, 2020 | Health, Wellness, and Readiness
SOCOM: Bulk of war casualties may be operators but SOF readiness is at all-time high Commando readiness across the service branches is at an all-time high thanks to a reduction in global missions, but the casualties they have taken in war zones are also up compared to...
by Roro Fernandez | Aug 5, 2020 | Health, Wellness, and Readiness
Mental Health Resources for Military Families In Need If I were to ask you if you knew the number to the base clinic’s appointment line, you could probably recite it from memory (or, at least, pull it up as a contact in your phone). But, do you know where to go when...
by Roro Fernandez | Aug 5, 2020 | Health, Wellness, and Readiness
Management of Sleep Disturbances Following Concussion/Mild TBI Clinical Suite DVBIC updated the Management of Sleep Disturbances following Concussion/Mild TBI: Guidance for Primary Care Management in Deployed and Non-Deployed Settings (Sleep CR). It represents a major...
by Roro Fernandez | Jul 15, 2020 | Health, Wellness, and Readiness
The NICoE: Ten years of Healing ‘The Invisible Wounds of War’ The National Intrepid Center of Excellence at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center houses the Computer Assisted Rehabilitation Environment (CAREN), a magnetoencephalography (MEG) machine used to...