Live Healthy West Virginia
Ep. 45 - Domestic Violence: VIP Brain Injury Treatment for Survivors
Season 1, Episode 2
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30m
Domestic violence survivors are an often-overlooked population prone to repeated concussions. An estimated one-in-three women, and one-in-seven men in the U.S. will experience physical violence from an intimate partner in their lifetime.
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, so we talk about a specialized neurological program giving VIP treatment to domestic violence survivors with Dr. Javier Cárdenas, director of the Concussion and Brain Injury Center at the WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute.
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