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New Traumatic Brain Injury Legislation Introduced

Sens. Craig and Akaka join forces for veterans

(Washington, DC) On Thursday the top Democrat and top Republican on the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs joined forces to introduce new legislation which will help veterans suffering from traumatic brain injuries.

The Veterans Traumatic Brain Injury Act of 2007 (S. 1233), introduced by Sens. Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii) and Larry Craig (R-Idaho), would require the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide every veteran who has an inpatient stay for a TBI with an individual plan for rehabilitation and reintegration. It would also require the establishment a research, clinical care, and education program for TBI.

The legislation also would require that VA officials send a veteran to a private care if VA cannot provide it, and it calls for the creation of a pilot program for assisted living for veterans with severe traumatic brain injuries.

"Traumatic brain injury has been called the signature wound of the war in Iraq," said Craig, the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs. "I think this bill will move VA further in the direction they are heading and provide veterans with traumatic brain injuries an opportunity to achieve a full and productive life."

To read more of this article please feel free to visit veterans.senate.gov.

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Every 21 seconds, one person in the US sustains a Traumatic Brain Injury.

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) costs the country more than $48 billion a year, and between 2.5 and 6.5 million Americans alive today have had a TBI. Survivors of TBI are often left with significant cognitive, behavioral, and communicative disabilities, and some patients develop long-term medical complications, such as epilepsy.


 


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