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http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-03-03-brain-trauma-lede_x.htm This article is talking about brain trama related to the Iraq War. THis war is dealing with more brain injuries than any other war in our nation's history, and as a result the military is having to adapt in caring for these wounded soldiers. Traumatic Brain Injury, TBI as its known, is something that this country has never really delt with before. Now that the military has such good body armour and protection against bullits, the weakest spot becomes ones head. Road side bombs/blasts are very speratic and unperdictible, and once they go off it can shake up the brain so badly. What is so scary about brain injuries is that there is really no time frame for recovery. While the rest of their body will recover to full health, meaning that they look physically fine, however their brain will not have returned to normal and as a result they will still be shaken up. From January 2003 to January 2007 there were 437 cases of TBI reported. Over half of these had perminate brain damage. Their is hope however, like in the case of Bob Woodruff. A reporter for ABC went over to investigate the Iraq war and report on it, when his convory was hit with a road side bomb. He was diagnosed with TBI and spent months in rehabilitation trying to regain any memory that he could from it. Eventuially he completely regained full memory of everything in his life except the memory of actuially what happend during the explosion. He is very lucky compared to others that experienced this in Iraq. Some do and some don't and its just complete luck on who and who doesn't. In the mose severe cases soldiers have to learn how to even speak again. This means that they basically have to re-learn almost every thing just like a baby would. Its takes years of re learning things that seem so basic to people that don't have this injury. As you can see, TBI is a very serious injury that really has no set recovery time on. Though it is very speratic there is hope that you can come out of it if just given the right amount of time.
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