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| Veterans With Traumatic Brain Injuries: Innovative Treatment in Texas | |
| 2015-01-18 | |
| [FoxNews]. For many men and women serving in the armed forces, the battle does not end when they return home. Such was the case for Sgt. First Class Andrew Marr, whose career as an Army Special Forces Green Beret explosive breacher was brought to a premature end. The nature of his work, which began in 2006 and included three tours in Afghanistan, placed Marr in and around numerous explosions and caused him to suffer multiple traumatic brain injuries (TBI), eventually leading to his military medical retirement. When he returned home to his wife and five children in Washington, he was a changed man. I would just have these bouts where I would be overcome with emotion and I couldnt stop crying, I couldnt control it, Marr told FoxNews.com. He began suffering from insomnia and distancing himself from his family and friends. For Marr, who said he suffered from no symptoms prior to 2013, the answers did not come easily. Constantly agitated, finding myself irritable and that would turn into a burning rage, which was very uncomfortable to deal with, especially when you dont want to be feeling like that and you try to turn it off and it wont turn off, he said while describing his symptoms.
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| Posted by:Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 |
| #3 Interesting diversionary physical therapy: I was given one(1) shoe insert. If it works, I would instead call it "truly elegant therapy", something Milton Erickson MD would have done. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-01-18 11:20 |
| #2 Good for him! Taking control of his life. Self-medicating trauma induced depression with alcohol can quickly become a habit, masking physical or psychic diagnostic pain. Interesting diversionary physical therapy: I was given one(1) shoe insert. This changed my gait and the accompanying list-to-port forced me to focus on subtle balance issues instead of what was in my head. Two(2) weeks then rotate. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2015-01-18 08:39 |
| #1 “When I was there they made it very clear to me that my alcohol consumption was killing me as much as anything else,” Marr said. “For the first time they really made it clear what I was doing with my body.” Yo Andy! Good move. Limit your intake, and stick with the PT programme. Good on ya brother. Hang in there ! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-01-18 03:12 |