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War Veterans’ Concussions Are Often Overlooked
he felt his injuries had gone unrecognized by the military “because there was no blood” and because he chose to work through his pain.
Former Staff Sgt. Kevin Owsley is not quite sure what rattled his brain in 2004: the roadside bomb that exploded about a yard from his Humvee or the rocket-propelled grenade that flung him across a road as he walked to a Porta Potti on base six weeks later.
Soldier’s Story Illustrates Risks of Hearing Loss During War
…he couldn’t hear well enough to tell where the sniper fire was coming from. “I had no idea,” he wrote.
To sleep, he listens to rock music on his iPod, a common means of coping for troops with tinnitus, says Army MAJ Dan Ohama, an audiologist working in Baghdad.