Concussion consultants testify in Senate listening to on blast mTBI — Concussion Alliance

By Malayka Gormally. This text was initially printed within the 3/7/24 version of our Concussion Replace e-newsletter; please think about subscribing.

On February 28, the Senate Armed Companies Subcommittee on Personnel held a listening to about traumatic brain injury from repeated blast publicity for U.S. service members. Senator Elizabeth Warren, Chairwoman of the subpanel, led the two-hour listening to (view the C-span recording here) during which senators questioned consultants––together with famend brain injury knowledgeable Ross Zafonte, MD, President of Spaulding Rehabilitation Community; Dr. Carlos Williams, director of the Nationwide Intrepid Heart of Excellence on the Walter Reed Nationwide Navy Medical Heart, Division of Protection officers; and Frank Larkin, COO of Feherty’s Troops First Basis, whose son’s dying was attributable to blast publicity. An article in Stripes sums up the tone of the listening to: “The Pentagon has been too passive in addressing and stopping harm attributable to shock waves that emanate from exploding weapons, referred to as overpressure.” Senator Warren stated, “I wish to be a accomplice however a accomplice that urges you to maneuver sooner and ship extra for our service members as shortly as attainable…We have to do higher for our troops, and we have to do it proper now.”