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Elana Duffy and Treating Traumatic Brain Injury

Season 1 Episode 1 | 28s

The Department of Defense estimates that more than 340,000 military service members have sustained a traumatic brain injury since 2000. Retired Army Sgt. 1st Class Elana Duffy - an avid rock climber - was diagnosed with a TBI two years after an improvised explosive device hit her convoy in Iraq in 2005.

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