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Belvoir Hospital Joins Forces with Veteran Affairs, Others to Research Brain Injury
(Department of Defense photo by Marc Barnes)
From Belvoir Hospital Public Affairs
FORT BELVOIR, Va. (Oct. 11, 2016) -- Fort Belvoir Community Hospital has recently been selected to participate in the Chronic Effects of Neuro-trauma Consortium (CENC) study to determine what happens to service members and veterans who suffer mild traumatic brain injuries or concussions.
This study is a part of a White House initiative highlighting “invisible wounds of war,” and is a joint venture between the Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs. Fort Belvoir is the only military site in the nation selected to participate.
The injuries that will be studied include both combat injuries, such as those from blasts and bullets, and civilian injuries, such as those from car accidents, sports injuries and falls. The idea of the study is to understand the long term consequences of this injury to service members and veterans in a systematic and comprehensive way. The study will measure many aspects of a person’s condition including cognitive testing, psychosocial scales, advanced MRI, and EEG. The patients will be contacted at specified time points for 15 years.
“This project is specifically designed to help develop an understanding of the linkage between concussion/blast exposures and chronic effects in service members and veterans with combat-related TBI exposure,” said Dr. Maulik Purohit, chief of Research Neuro-rehabilitation and Traumatic Brain Injury at the Intrepid Spirit One National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICoE) Satellite. “The study will allow us and other providers to better understand brain injury and psychological health conditions with a goal of providing improved treatments and better care for service members in the future and should truly help advance our knowledge and treatment of TBI.”
Some research will also focus on which patients are more likely to have problems after a brain injury, how injured patients can be better treated and cared for, and what injured parties and their families can expect over a lifetime.
“This information will help service members and veterans who have had a brain injury, and their families, better understand what has happened to them, what they can do to feel better, and what they can expect as they get older. It also will help the people who provide care for service members and veterans understand the problems that can occur and better ways to provide care. In addition, it will help the military health systems provide the best possible care and the right benefits for service members and veterans who have these injuries,” said Purohit
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