Over 1.7 million Americans suffer traumatic brain injuries (TBI) every year.
Of those injuries, nearly 30,000 affected our brave servicemen and women of the armed forces. Since 2000, it is estimated that over 300,000 soldiers have returned to active duty or their daily lives while still suffering from the effects of a brain injury.
In 2011, researchers at the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Clinic (DVBIC) at Fort Carson, CO, began a research study on the effects of Interactive Metronome for treating mTBI. The results were overwhelmingly positive, and published in September 2013 in the peer-reviewed Neuropsychology journal. The infographic highlights the study, but please check out the attached research when you have the time.
"The loss of white matter connections (which happens in blast injury) ... results in inefficient processing, slowed speed of processing, and problems with sensory integration. Repair of these white matter connections is likely what accounts for the improvements in cognition that we observed after IM."
