From Hormones to Horses: How Veterans Are Finally Getting Help for Brain Injuries

For years, treatment for traumatic brain injury has proven elusive. First, military leadership was hesitant to confront the problem, then slow to act. But even when decisions were made to start more aggressively combating the burgeoning issue that was blighting so many veterans, medical science was far behind. Brain damage is irreversible, and most treatments and therapies seek to address symptoms and restore function by training the brain to operate differently.