From WisPolitics.com/WisBusiness.com …
— The Medical College of Wisconsin has been awarded a $7.5 million clinical trial agreement to assess a method for rehabilitating people with traumatic brain injuries and related conditions.
MCW today announced it will lead the clinical trial, which is focused on helping military veterans and first responders with mild traumatic brain injury and associated depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder.
The Veteran’s Interdisciplinary Care for TBI and Co-Occurring Disorders Rehabilitation Trial, or VICTORY-RCT, is sponsored by the national nonprofit Avalon Action Alliance. The group awarded MCW with the agreement to conduct the four-year study, led by Prof. Michael McCrea, vice chair for research in the college’s Department of Neurosurgery.
The effort will explore the impact of a three-week outpatient rehabilitation program, delivered at five Avalon clinical sites across the country. That includes MCW’s Building Resilience through Action in Veterans and First Responders, or BRAVE program, along with locations in North Carolina, Florida, Colorado and Pennsylvania.
McCrea says the model being studied “has the potential to meaningfully improve quality of life for individuals coping with the persistent effects of traumatic brain injury” benefiting both those injured in the line of duty and others.
MCW says mild traumatic brain injury is a leading cause of long-term disability, impacting at least 500,000 veterans since 2000 and millions of people around the world.
See the release below.
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