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DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS: A directed-energy weapon (DEW) is a type of weapon that uses highly focused energy to damage or incapacitate its target, rather than relying on solid projectiles like bullets or missiles. These weapons can utilize various forms of energy, including lasers, microwaves, particle beams, and sound beams. April 23, 2025 Arlington, VA Catherine Herridge continues to investigate Havana Syndrome, Directed Energy Weapons, and US Government misfeasance and malfeasance regarding victims of attacks. In this recently released report, her interviews reveal a culture and practices that hinder both proper diagnoses, treatments, and truth. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard weighed in on the issue at her confirmation: "American intelligence professionals around the globe face constant targeting from adversaries. Ensuring their health and safety is a top priority, and I am committed to investigating the threats they face, including potential causes of AHIs. . . . the mistreatment and dismissal of those who have been impacted by AHIs . I am committed to initiating a new investigation into Anomalous Health Incidents and making the findings public." James Giordano, a top US Neuroscientist & Military Advisor interviewed made DEWs sound "credible, crippling, and complex." What is clear to victims, if not to the US Government, is that real physical damage is done to multiple body systems during an attack, with long-term consequences that can lead to TBI, Parkinson's, PTSD, and multiple symptoms that can manifest immediately or over the long-term. For those fighting for decades to accurately diagnose their injuries, and get the best treatments available for the brain wounds caused by DEWs, the responses by most of their Agencies is familiar: deny, delay, deceive, drugs, depression, and even death. In this scenario, they are following the path of the 877,450 Veterans suffering TBI/PTSD since 9/11. Veterans denied even respect and compassion for their "invisible wounds" can teach the AHI/Havana Syndrome victims all about the inadequacies of current "standards of care" at Intrepid Spirit Centers and other facilities. Compare, for example, the Centers of Excellence that AHI victims have been referred to: Johns Hopkins; the National Intrepid Center of Excellence and its offshoot Intrepid Spirit Centers; Universities in Florida, Pennsylvania, and California; and rehabilitation and specialty centers across the country. You will search in vain for any on-label or off-label treatment that is approved by the FDA for brain wounds. None. That doesn't prevent those institutions from prescribing a host of interventions, with frequent use of drugs that warn of suicide ideation, and a grab-bag of talk and physical therapy and time-limited insurance payments. Familiar blame-shifting reports like that issued by the NIH perpetuate the myth that MRIs are reliable in spotting complex brain wounds. Further, the neuropsychologist and deputy director of the National Intrepid Center of Excellence at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, reinforces the cultural and systemic bias against accurate diagnoses of the nature of brain wounds. His well-known disrespect of victims over the past few years is legendary for those who seek to achieve recognition of their Workers Compensation claims for brain wounds. His observations are typical across the brain wound diagnosing industry: it is the Patients' FAULT that they're sick. According to this psychologist, “The post-traumatic stress and mood symptoms reported are not surprising given the ongoing concerns of many of the participants. . . . Often these individuals have had significant disruption to their lives and continue to have concerns about their health and their future. This level of stress can have significant negative impacts on the recovery process.” In other words, just like for too many Veterans who are misdiagnosed for brain trauma, the "sickness" is psychosomatic, all in their head, a mental health problem. Luckily, non-government diagnosticians without institutional bias accurately diagnose brain wounds. And various other specialists find ear and eye and other system damage that isn't adequately addressed at Walter Reed. Yet proven alternative therapies like Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) that has a decade of peer-reviewed science attesting to its safety and effectiveness fighting brain wounds, is not even mentioned to victims. A small cohort of AHI victims has now been through 40 treatments of HBOT, thanks to the patriotism and charity of HBOT clinics and providers. A recent evaluation of a half dozen successes using qEEG testing "demonstrated a pattern of selective neurophysiological recovery following HBOT. Modest but reliable changes in z-scores across the cognitive-affective system . . . . are consistent with improvements in attention regulation, planning, and memory integration improved cortical activation and regulatory capacity." As important, the interventions with HBOT "indicate . . . . that the intervention was effective in addressing subtle brain network imbalances. These gains provide an important neural foundation for enhanced cognitive performance and subjective symptom relief." For the treated victims, the ability to sleep, work, focus, think, remember, and live a more normal life are not negligible. Directed Energy Weapons have been around a long time. Use against humans has apparently resulted in DEWs for crowd control. The same weapons can disable drones or destroy satellites or ICBMs, depending on the sophistication, size, and power source. The medical community seems willing to accept that DEWs might be implicated in AHI victims' injuries, but the waffling and hand-waving about WHO could be on the attack worldwide continues to allow decision-makers to avoid accepting responsibility and accelerating the processes that will provide adequate compensation and treatments to victims. Herridge's reporting points to several avenues of inquiry: How big and widespread is the problem? Why are victims denied accurate diagnoses and treatments to heal brain wounds and other maladies? Why is the US Government so late to the understanding that AHI/Havana Syndrome victims are a precursor to a national security challenge: how to cope with DEWs on the battlefield and with victims of brain wounding? When is the medical community going to allow alternative therapies for the polytrauma caused by DEWs? We have learned with BLAST and TBI/PTSD injuries suffered in combat, or in head trauma broadly, that delay is not good medicine. As the AHI victims can attest, neglect for a decade at the medical and bureaucratic levels does not lead to healthy outcomes nor confidence and retention across our intelligence community. ****************************** The TreatNOW Mission is ending service member suicides. Along the way, we have learned that we can end suicidal ideation, help end symptoms of PTSD, get patients off most of their drugs, and heal brain wounds to end the effects of Concussion, BLAST injury, mild TBI Persistent Post Concussive Syndrome, and polytrauma from AHI and Burn Pits. No Veteran or civilian has ever been killed while undergoing HBOT treatment for TBI/PTSD. Information provided by TreatNOW.org does not constitute a medical recommendation. It is intended for informational purposes only, and no claims, either real or implied, are being made. Read the full article

Bloodletting became popular in early American history; Benjamin Rush, a prominent Philadelphia physician and a signer of the Declaration of Independence fiercely advocated its use. One critic wrote: “By virtue of his social and professional prominence, his position as teacher and his facile pen, Benjamin Rush had more influence upon American medicine and was more potent in propagation and long perpetuation of medical errors than any man of his day. To him, more than any other man in America, was due the great vogue of vomits, purging, and especially of bleeding, salivation and blistering, which blackened the record of medicine and afflicted the sick almost to the time of the Civil War.” BOTTOM LINE UP FRONT: Concussion Protocols are rooted in a series of medical myths: the "best treatment" for a Concussion is recognition, rest, time, symptom reduction, second-hit avoidance, information, and certainty that most concussions heal on their own. So, just give them time. This medical negligence allows too many victims of brain wounds to slowly atrophy and die of complications attributable to untreated wounds to the brain. ************ Bloodletting, or phlebotomy, was one of those centuries long medical activities that finally surrendered to modern science. Loss of too much blood under medical supervision probably killed George Washington. Though still used in some accredited interventions, we have learned much more about disease and are aware of the grip that guessing and hoping and "truth" held over physicians. Gratefully, time has helped advance the practice of healing. But not where concussions are concerned. Myths are stories told to get people to believe. They are widely held but mostly false ideas and beliefs. Historically they are marketing devices to convince a whole class of people to believe and act in a certain way. Stories told long enough become "truth." Bear with me; this all relates to why “appropriate health care professionals” worldwide with certified Concussion expertise get it so wrong, and en masse. Memes, which circulate units of cultural information much in the same way genes pass on biological information, can become pathological when they propagate false ideas. They become like "thought viruses" that have to be fought and eradicated. Centuries of medical myths have killed. As Heston and Gosselin have put it: Putting logic ahead of the scientific method, excessively relying upon expert opinion, and an incomplete understanding of biostatistics all contribute to the etiology of a medical myth. Yuval Noah Harari in NEXUS makes a salient point: when religion and medicine together create a myth, it is liable to stick around for centuries. Witch hunting was sanctioned to root out a global satanic conspiracy that was polluting civilization. Orgies, cannibalism, child murders, satanic conspiracies and pollution of genetic purity still fuel "witch hunts" to this day. The point is that wrong ideas do not have to be true to have staying power, and to defeat facts. Wrong ideas have power to kill good ideas, good science, and evidence based medicine. The NFL has done a terrific job of embedding itself so deep into American society that it has the overtones of a religion. And the NFL's protocol has the "weight of evidence" behind it. To repeat: nothing in the NFL's Concussion Protocol, especially the Return to Participation Protocol, discusses a brain wound, or intervention with HBOT to reduce inflammation, flood the brain with oxygen, and heal the wound. It is all about symptom identification and resolution, despite accumulating evidence that delay in actual brain wound treatment can lead to lifelong degeneration. The myth continues: Keep adding to observers to ensure we don't miss the symptoms, but just wait a while for them to go away. That blue tent on the sidelines and the walk to the locker room are for privacy and diagnosis, not healing medicine. We'll keep coming back to the Myths and Myth Makers in the coming weeks. NOTE: One professional society that continues to evolve around Veterans' issues is the Court system. The first Veteran Treatment Courts (VTC) was created in Buffalo, New York in January 2008. The number of VTCs has since grown to over 600 in the United States as of 2021. VTCs know enough about Veteran trauma to know that a new/enhanced system to treat Veterans in legal peril was required. Would that the medical culture had evolved vis-a-vis TBIs; Veterans would be receiving brain wound healing that we now know is superior to life-saving compared to the standard of care in the VA. NOTE: To experience the birth of a series of concussion myths and mythmakers, view "League of Denial." NOTE: A new study out of England "suggests that repeated head injuries, such as concussions, a known risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), may reactivate a common dormant virus in the brain, increasing the risk of AD and other neurodegenerative conditions. Researchers found that even mild brain trauma can trigger this chain reaction, leading to harmful changes associated with memory loss and cognitive decline. When the brain tissues were exposed to repeated "mild blows," the previously dormant HSV-1 virus became active. This reactivation triggered inflammation, beta-amyloid plaque build-up, and the formation of harmful tau proteins, which can damage brain cells and impair memory." ****************************** The TreatNOW Mission is ending service member suicides. Along the way, we have learned that we can end suicidal ideation, help end symptoms of PTSD, get patients off most of their drugs, and heal brain wounds to end the effects of Concussion, BLAST injury, mild TBI Persistent Post Concussive Syndrome, and polytrauma from AHI and Burn Pits. www.treatnow.org Information provided by TreatNOW.org does not constitute a medical recommendation. It is intended for informational purposes only, and no claims, either real or implied, are being made. Read the full article

Every person with a Concussion has a right to be told that a safe and effective treatment exist to help heal the brain wound. Hoping a Concussion Protocol will somehow allow a brain wound to heal borders on medical negligence. Concussion Protocols worldwide have a built-in bias toward an outmoded approach to brain wounds/TBI/PTSD/Concussion/BLAST. None of the protocols mention Oxygen treatment to repair the underlying brain wound/trauma caused by the concussion. They offer "resting" advice to parents of children with concussions, who often have debilitating symptoms. Concussions are a brain wound, a form of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) A concussion is a wound/physical tauma to the soft tissue we call the brain. A concussion begins a negative “concussion cascade” that can lead to serious and sometimes fatal consequences. This brain wounding is accompanied by symptoms of confusion or disorientation, sometimes loss of consciousness, and memory loss. It is often described as having your "bell rung." While it is true that these symptoms will diminish over time in many cases, there can be long-term physiological and other consequences when you do not treat the brain wound. What is this Concussion Cascade, and why haven’t I been told about it? It has been very difficult to “see” the wound/damage to the brain on routine X-rays, including CT scans and MRIs. Medicine diagnoses concussions by identifying the symptoms. You are assumed to be “better” when those symptoms go away. Doctors typically say that 80-90% of concussions heal on their own. What about the 20% whose symptoms remain? The Concussion Cascade can include these findings: - Inflammation - Reduced blood flow and oxygen delivery to brain cells - Reduced nutrients and enzymes necessary for wound healing/repair - Physical damage to brain matter at the microscopic level and not seen on X-rays, CT scans or MRIs - Oxygen starvation/hypoxia - Cell inactivation and death - Buildup of waste in the brain that can lead to chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in some cases And don't be shocked to learn that the same people that tell you everything will be fine in time, they are quick to warn about a second concussion. But if everthing is okay if you follow the Concussion Protocol, why worry about a second or a third? Well, maybe because there is residual damage from the brain wound that never healed. Concussions are typically a mild form of traumatic brain injury (mTBI). To understand concussions in the context of all brain wounds, it is instructive to look at just a few of the brain wounds we deal with every day. None are to be taken lightly, yet most are never treated properly: as a brain wound, not as a mental health problem that will somehow magically heal via "the tincture of time." Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is an injury to the brain caused by an external force, such as a blow to the head, a penetrating head injury, or a blast injury.  Major Symptoms of TBI can vary greatly in severity and may include: Physical Symptoms: Headache  Nausea and vomiting  Dizziness or loss of balance  Fatigue or drowsiness  Sensitivity to light and sound  Blurred vision  Changes in speech  Weakness, numbness, or tingling in extremities  Seizures  Cognitive Symptoms: Confusion  Difficulty thinking clearly  Memory problems  Difficulty concentrating  Slowed thinking or processing information  Problems with judgment  Behavioral or Mood Symptoms: Irritability  Agitation  Anxiety  Depression  Aggression  Changes in personality  Severity of TBI: Mild TBI (concussion):May involve a brief period of unconsciousness or disorientation.  Medicine says that symptoms typically resolve within a few weeks, but they do little to adequately treat and heal the brain wound Moderate TBI: Loss of consciousness for an extended period. Possible confusion and disorientation for hours or days.  May experience more severe cognitive and physical symptoms. Severe TBI: Extended period of unconsciousness or coma.  Significant neurological damage.  May result in long-term disabilities.  BLAST damage. Blast injuries occur when explosions create high-pressure waves that can damage sensitive organs like the ears and brain. A blast injury is caused by the intense energy released in an explosion and can lead to a wide range of injuries, depending on the type of blast. 1. Primary Blast Injury This type of injury results from the direct effects of the blast wave on the body. It primarily affects air-filled organs, such as the lungs, ears, and gastrointestinal tract. - Concussion or brain injury: Loss of consciousness Headache Dizziness Cognitive difficulties (memory loss, confusion) - Ear damage: Tympanic membrane (eardrum) rupture Hearing loss or decreased hearing Tinnitus (ringing in the ears) Ear pain or pressure Balance issues or vertigo - Pulmonary (lung) injuries: Pulmonary contusion (bruising of lung tissue) Pneumothorax (collapsed lung) Hemothorax (blood in the chest cavity) Respiratory distress or failure Hypoxia (low oxygen levels) Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) - Gastrointestinal injuries: Bowel perforation or rupture Abdominal pain or distension Nausea and vomiting Gastrointestinal bleeding General Symptoms of Blast Injury - Shock (hypovolemic or neurogenic shock) - Pain (due to tissue damage, fractures, or burns) - Confusion or altered mental status (due to brain injury or shock) - Loss of consciousness (can be temporary or prolonged) - Respiratory distress (due to lung damage or blocked airways) - Bleeding or bruising (due to internal injuries or shrapnel wounds) - Fatigue and weakness (due to trauma or blood loss) Long-Term Effects - Cognitive or psychological issues (such as memory problems, mood disorders) - Chronic hearing loss or tinnitus - Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) - Chronic pain and disability due to fractures or soft tissue damage - Pulmonary problems or chronic lung disease (if lung injury was significant) Polytrauma and Operator Syndrome are more complex and additive injuries suffered along with brain wounding. What is true for mTBI/Concussion is also true for these conditions. Short of death, these are the worst war and accidents can serve up. Proper diagnosis and proper treatment are mandatory to restore near-normal function. And that includes treating and healing brain wounds. You do not have to sit idly by hoping a Concussion will heal on its own when you follow the Concussion Protocol. NOTE: Ask yourself where in the NFL Concussion Protocol, or ANY protocol in high school or college or the NHL or FIFA or your local hospital, any attention is paid to treating and healing the brain wound. Here's a taste: The NFL Concussion Protocol is a multi-step process designed to evaluate and manage players suspected of having a concussion. Here's a simplified summary:  1. On-Field Evaluation: - Spotting the injury: If a player displays concerning symptoms (e.g., dizziness, confusion, loss of balance) on the field, medical personnel are immediately alerted.  - Sideline assessment: A brief initial evaluation is conducted on the sideline to assess for any "no-go" symptoms (e.g., loss of consciousness, seizures, severe motor weakness).  2. Locker Room Evaluation: - More thorough examination: If concerns remain, the player undergoes a more comprehensive evaluation in the locker room. This includes neurological tests, cognitive assessments, and balance tests.  3. Independent Neurological Consultant (INC) Evaluation: - Independent assessment: An independent neurologist examines the player to provide an unbiased evaluation.  4. Return-to-Play Protocol: - Gradual progression: Players must pass through a series of steps before returning to play, including: Rest: Initial rest and symptom monitoring. Light aerobic exercise: Gradually increasing physical activity.  Non-contact drills: Introducing non-contact football activities.  Contact practice: Gradual reintroduction to contact drills. Full practice participation: Returning to full practice with the team. 5. Ongoing Monitoring: - Continued observation: Players are closely monitored for any recurring symptoms throughout the return-to-play process.  Key Points: - Player safety is paramount: The protocol emphasizes the importance of player safety and aims to prevent premature return to play.  - Independent evaluation: The involvement of an independent neurologist ensures unbiased assessment.  - Gradual progression: The step-wise approach allows for a safe and gradual return to play.  - Ongoing monitoring: Continuous monitoring helps identify any potential complications. Note: not a word about brain inflammation, reduced oxygen, healing the brain wound. The NFL spends more time healing ACLs, hamstrings, and broken bones than it does on brain wounds. Yet more former players succumb to suicide or CTE than to orthopedic injuries. Of course, those players are off the NFL's books by that time. Heal Brains. Stop Suicides. Restore Lives. TreatNOW ****************************** The TreatNOW Mission is ending service member suicides. Along the way, we have learned that we can end suicidal ideation, help end symptoms of PTSD, get patients off most of their drugs, and heal brain wounds to end the effects of Concussion, BLAST injury, mild TBI Persistent Post Concussive Syndrome, and polytrauma from AHI and Burn Pits. www.treatnow.org Information provided by TreatNOW.org does not constitute a medical recommendation. It is intended for informational purposes only, and no claims, either real or implied, are being made. Read the full article

Havana Syndrome. Take a guess: how many Americans have heard of it, or by its new name, Anomalous Health Incidents (AHI)? 33%. A scandal that CBS/60 Minutes has done multiple programs on. 8 years of history, over 1500 victims, Russia and China and Cuba links. Personnel from the State Department, DOD, the Intelligence Community, and the CIA, attacked, sometimes more than once, in over 90 countries. Mysteries, coverups, not-to-be-believed but proven-true injuries, and careers destroyed. Children too. This is the stuff of Tom Clancy. And Netflix. And ongoing pain and suffering and Agencies walking away from the victims. “Treatments” that turn into throwing-in-the-towel, disrespect, accusations, pills, abandonment, lawsuits, deep resentment, and conflicting and even laughable official research, hearings, reports and stonewalling. Some good people are part of the mix, but fewer and fewer. On to the next crisis, hurricane, election, outbreak of violence. Sound familiar? Burn Pits? Gulf War Syndrome? Agent Orange? Toxic water? We’re writing about this because it has direct bearing on brain wounding, ignorant medical practitioners, failure to know the research, sloppiness, laziness, bureaucratic bafflegab, and lack of accountability. First some background and circling back to how this is another example of medicine and politics failing patriotic victims wounded in the line of duty and left to their own devices for coping with an uncertain and degraded future. That is, until some of them starting finding out about Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and other alternative therapies that are giving them their lives back. Beginning in 2014, US personnel in the US embassy in Havana Cuba began reporting a mysterious set of debilitating symptoms. Extensive reporting in 2016 reported symptoms beginning with a loud noise, ear pain, intense head pressure or vibration, dizziness, visual problems, and cognitive difficulties.  The reports over time and in many other places also included other symptoms: migraines, memory loss and trouble concentrating, ear ringing/tinnitus, dizziness, fatigue, nausea, anxiety, vision problems, balance issues, hearing loss, sleeplessness, and other neurological symptoms. Over the next seven years, as many as 1500-2000 personnel and family members from multiple countries reported similar phenomena and injuries in over 90 countries. Efforts began to describe the neurological manifestations that followed exposure to an unknown energy source associated with auditory and sensory phenomena. Results studying those with reported exposures demonstrated a similar pattern: individuals reported a similar constellation of neurological symptoms resembling brain injury. Over time, some of those individuals were referred to academic brain injury centers and DoD facilities for multidisciplinary evaluation and treatment. And the numbers of subjects continued to grow, along with multiple alleged attacks on the same individuals. In parallel, efforts were begun to discover the source of the injuries. From a diagnostic perspective, of course, the origin or origins of the multitude of symptoms would help in accurate identification of the insults and help in recommendations for treatment. Numerous committees speculated on various possibilities: Directed, pulsed radio frequency (RF) energy; Sonic weapons; Functional neurological disorders/persistent postural-perceptual dizziness (PPPD); Psychogenic or mass psychoses; Chemicals/ neurotoxins; Infectious agents; Vestibular migraines; and Multifactorial. Also mentioned were preexisting conditions, conventional illnesses, and environmental factors. One theory was that buzzing noises reported in several of the Havana incidents were the mating call of a particularly loud cricket, Anurogryllus celerinictus.  Contrary and more controversial opinions also varied; official reports were conflicting over time. Investigators found that efforts to understand this syndrome, now renamed “Anomalous Health Incidents” (AHIs), were hampered by politics, overarching national security concerns, the unusual features of the victims' accounts, incomplete information, non-standardized clinical testing, delayed reporting, and the sensitive/classified nature of the circumstances, individuals, and their work. At the end of the day, almost everyone agreed that something debilitating had happened to some of America's finest public servants and service members, their children, as well as foreign diplomats. The alleged incidents occurred overseas and in the US. Starting in 2023, led by the National Foundation for Integrative Medicine and the TreatNOW Coalition, a number of clinicians were contacted by US Government personnel complaining of AHI symptoms. After thorough vetting and analysis of the symptoms, the Coalition determined that the bulk of the growing list of callers had suffered Traumatic Brain Injuries, among their numerous maladies. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, unavailable and uncompensated by the USG, was recommended. Based on objective and subjective symptoms reported in the literature and interviews, HBOT was one obvious choice for treatment. Yet no one who came forward had been offered HBOT; virtually none had ever heard of it as a proven safe and effective treatment for TBI. What was clear, however, was the nearly unanimous reports from the victims that they have been left to their own devices and resources to get sustained help for their conditions. Far too many of the victims have had to quit work or, worse, have been "retired" or let go. The stories of neglect, disrespect, suspicion, endless bureaucratic paperwork lasting years, ghosting, and/or denial of claims have all led to too much gloom and sense of abandonment. They had approached us for help despite legislation intended to provide and pay for that help. Many of them had already spent tens of thousands of their own dollars to seek relief. Even before legislation, certain AHI victims were granted access to DOD facilities like the National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICoE) where active duty service members with traumatic brain injuries were treated. Initially, personnel were sent to the University of Pennsylvania for diagnosis and treatment. Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was available through a host of VA and other civilian facilities. Yet none of the USG interventions focused on the frequently diagnosed traumatic brain injury. Interventions were focused on symptom palliation. Diagnoses for TBI became increasingly hard to come by. And the AHI victims continue to search for relief. Background on TBI, PTSD, and the use of Hyperbaric Oxygenation for Brain Wounds The use of HBOT for TBI and related symptoms has a decades long scientific legacy. Numerous peer-reviewed clinical trials demonstrate the safety and efficacy of HBOT for TBI. The largely pro bono efforts of TreatNOW and NFIM and over 150 clinics, researchers and practitioners have resulted in over 31,000 successes in over 150 TreatNOW Coalition HBOT clinics across the US. Reported symptoms from AHI echoed decades of history treating TBI and PTSD suffered by combat veterans. The similarities of AHI symptoms to TBI – whether from BLAST, IEDs, falls, training, accidents, or friendly fire – were virtually identical. The label attached to the various complex of symptoms was unimportant; HBOT clinicians treat the patient and reported disease. The symptoms reported by the AHI patients presenting to HBOT specialists bear a strong resemblance to those cataloged by the military health system and the VA. - Flashbacks, or feeling like the event is happening again - Trouble sleeping or nightmares - Feeling alone or detached from others - Losing interest in activities - Having angry outbursts or other extreme reactions - Feeling worried, guilty, or sad - Frightening thoughts - Having trouble concentrating - Having physical pain like headaches or stomach aches - Avoidance of memories, thoughts, or feelings about what closely associated with traumatic events - Problems remembering - Negative beliefs about themselves or others - Irritability - Feeling very vigilant - Startling easily - anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, and substance use also are seen with people who have PTSD. As a result of the presentations by numerous AHI victims, and the objective, subjective, and diagnostic record, some patients have been successfully treated with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy to help in their brain wound healing. Again, as decades of clinical experience and clinical trials demonstrate, helping to heal brain wounds leads in a majority of cases to a diminution or cessation of many symptoms. This is the first of a two part series showing the government, again, a way forward with HBOT in the case of a national emergency/ epidemic. ****************************** The TreatNOW Mission is ending service member suicides. Along the way, we have learned that we can end suicidal ideation, help end symptoms of PTSD, get patients off most of their drugs, and heal brain wounds to end the effects of BLAST injury, mild TBI Persistent Post Concussive Syndrome, and polytrauma from AHI and Burn Pits. Diabetic Foot Ulcers have become a major emphasis. www.treatnow.org Heal Brains. Stop Suicides. Restore Lives. TreatNOW Information provided by TreatNOW.org does not constitute a medical recommendation. It is intended for informational purposes only, and no claims, either real or implied, are being made. Read the full article

Partial Explanation why Marines report Highest Suicide Rate since 2011, Navy since 2019 Dave Philipps, Pulitzer prize-winning and NYT reporter, has filed another report on continuing investigations into BLAST injury. He does it through a look at the US strategy of using firepower to destroy ISIS in Iraq and Syria. "A Secret War, Strange New Wounds, and Silence From the Pentagon" tells a sad tale but neglects a open secret: blast injury has been known for decades to cause brain wounds. "Strange New Wounds" have been known for fifteen years as "THE INVISIBLE WOUNDS OF WAR." "An investigation by The New York Times found that many of the troops sent to bombard the Islamic State in 2016 and 2017 returned to the United States plagued by nightmares, panic attacks, depression and, in a few cases, hallucinations. Once-reliable Marines turned unpredictable and strange. Some are now homeless. A striking number eventually died by suicide, or tried to." Too many of the wounded were forced out of the military without any medical help. The Epoch Times did a long two-part report on the same maladies caused by the deployment that led to tens of thousands of concussive friendly-fire BLAST waves hitting the artillerymen. The stories in the Epoch Times drew attention to the work of USJAG. Robert Alvarez, Nic Gray, and Jeremy "Weed" Sorenson are doing the heavy lifting exposing the unreported brain wounding and the downhill slide into Other Than Honorable discharges for too many of these wounded warriors. USJAG and a few intrepid reporters are uncovering the systemic flaws in our "mental health" approach to unrecognized physical damage wrought by war. And they are seeking redress of the further damage done by bureaucracies ignorant of the pain and suffering of the brain wounded. The military and the VA continue in their willful ignorance about the reality of brain wounding and the scourge of TBI/PTSD injuries going unreported, undiagnosed, and untreated. Worse, lacking a service-wide education about the reality of brain wounding and its impact on behavior and performance and readiness of individuals, and the force more broadly, the wounded will continue to be mistreated by a medical community and command structure that has little sense of urgency about the need to treat brain wounds. A curious and ineffective response has set in, reminiscent of the dilatory approach to Burn Pits and Agent Orange. "Paralysis through analysis" has taken hold once again. "We need to study the problem." "We just don't know enough yet." Meanwhile the suicide rate continues its upward trend and the researchers claim they need more time and money before they  can even know what has happened. Time and again, the focus is on diagnosis, to the detriment of the wounded who continue to deteriorate, without even health insurance, disability payments, and an end to their careers. And treatments that have been proven safe, effective, and low-cost -- and which can be employed immediately -- are disdained as unproven, unsafe, too risky, too costly, and lacking in evidence. The simple fact is that medicine is willfully ignorant about hyperbaric medicine and likely to stay that way, despite overwhelming evidence, without intervention by Congress and the White House, as with Burn Pits. Here are five take-aways from the NYT study: ** To defeat ISIS, the United States relied on artillery crews firing more intensively than any had in generations. ** Many members of the gun crews developed devastating and puzzling symptoms. ** When the troops started to act strangely, they were often treated ineffectively or punished. ** Studies are starting to reveal the risk posed by blast exposure, but progress is slow. ** The military says it now has safeguards to protect from blasts, but it is not clear that much has changed. Here are five ALERTS to those who are still wondering if BLAST injuries exist. Brain wounding from friendly fire is not merely a Mental Health issue. Impaired performance is not the the victim's fault due to personal weakness, nor is it amenable to talk therapy and drugs that merely mask symptoms. ** The ground-breaking 2016 Lancet study sponsored by the Defense Health Program of the United States Department of Defense states: "scientific literature from the past 100 years shows that a substantial percentage of blast-exposed service members have persistent neurological or behavioral symptomatology." ** Breacher Syndrome and "Operator Syndrome" are real. Science and research will catch up to reality on the ground, facts which should be obvious to anyone paying attention. ** The modern Carl Gustav recoiless rifle, in operation since at least 1984, comes with warnings not to fire more than six rounds in a 24-hour period. The Danes seem to have understood BLAT damage four decades ago. ** Shoot rooms instructors and EOD personnel are well-known to suffer inordinately from recurring blasts and subconcussive impacts over years of exposure -- not unlike athletes subjected to repetitive head impacts. ** The "Invisible Wounds of War" are no longer "invisible" to anyone who cares about "root cause analysis". While brain wounds happen inside the head (and are frequently part of the polytrauma of combat), they can be "seen" via scans, functional and physiological outputs, symptom recognition, self-reporting, and careful diagnostics. Neglecting to diagnose and to treat brain wounds while waiting for more science in the face of a suicide epidemic is essentially medical malpractice. We KNOW, and we choose to shift the blame onto the victim or the "inadequacy" of scientific research. Continuing malfeasance. US troops at two airbases in Iraq were injured during a Jan. 8, 2020 Iranian missile attack on Al Asad Air base. Once again, even years after Blast injury was finally recognized as a direct cause of brain wounds the US initially declared that no one was hurt in the attack. Dozens of diagnoses later, we now recognize BLAST injuries riddled those under the hail of missiles. (Just imagine the damage being done in Ukraine and the Middle East.) One is reminded of the early military culture around Burn Pits: "nothing to see here; no damage." We know more now, and the VA, at least, presumes that proximity to Burn Pit toxic clouds causes physical damage and accepts responsibility to treat and help heal that damage. How long will it take the DoD and the VA to recognize that Blast damage is real, and can cause physical wounds to the brain and body? Further, how long before they link brain wounds to suicidal ideation? And that there is a treatment -- Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) -- that virtually eliminates suicidal ideation and helps heal those brain wounds without drugs and other ineffective interventions? The TreatNOW Coalition, alongside USJAG, has begun working with some of the casualties of the bombardments. USJAG are the pro bono advocates for those accused of Other Than Honorable behavior and subjected to fraudulent and penalizing discharges. * * * * * * * * * * * * The TreatNOW Coalition's pro bono Mission is to end service member suicides. The USMC reported this week that suicides are at an all-time high. TreatNOW HBOT Coalition clinics have demonstrated 100% safety and over 90% success in treating over 21,000 service members, Special Operators, first responders, athletes, and citizens with TBI/PTSD/Concussion. Brain Wounds like those described here can be successfully and safely treated and helped to heal with HBOT. Heal Brains. Stop Suicides. Restore Lives. 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