Carefree resident pushes for medical support for military personnel
Staff Report ~ 7/22/2010

Cave Creek resident David Lewis want to help military veterans dealing with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder get the treatment they need.
Lewis’ son suffered a traumatic brain injury 20 years ago. In searching for treatment to assist him Lewis opened up a homeopathic clinic, where he learned of beneficial treatments that required private funding.
From that experience he formed a non-profit to held fund treatment for (TBI).
The group Brain Health Foundation offers financial assistance to those with neurological and brain disorders to help cover treatments such as Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy which is used for a variety of ailments including autism, diabetes, asthma, cerebral palsy, but also PTSD, which effects large numbers of military veterans.
Now through the Pepsi Refresh Project, which is giving away $500,000 each month to fund a pair of great ideas, Lewis is asking for support in his bid to be one of the two top vote getters among the 1,094 ideas that have been submitted for consideration.
With two $250,000 prizes up for grabs Lewis’ site (www.refresheverything.com/treatheadinjuredveterans) explains that for $192,000 12 veterans could receive 80 days of treatment.
Voting runs through July 31.
For information on Brain Health Foundation call 480-488-1086 or 800-675-3947 or go to brainhealthfoundation.com.

Brain Health Foundation
P.O. Box 3062
Carefree, AZ 85331
800-675-3947
480-488-1086

Returning veterans, PTSD, foundation to treat veterans, trying to raise funds

4,000 homeless vets in Phoenix area, PTSD, come home,

Familiar with

Used to have a homeopathetic medicines, because I want

PEPSI grant only runs through the end of July 8, 2010

PEPSI started this rather than run a

Took 4 or 5 months to get into the contest, you have to enter online

$1.3 million a month

10 for the troops

480-488-1086
David Lewis
Cave Creek resident

OUR LEGION OF HONOR is coming home with invisible wounds that go pretty much untreated. Head injuries from IED blasts and PTSD. The Speckles Family funded San Francisco's Palace of Legion of Honor to honor the US war dead of the Great War. Now the family wants to honor our soldiers, not with a monument, but with treatments for these unseen wounds. Treating these injuries to the brain, in a private clinical trial would not only help our returning veterans but could gain approval and insurance coverage of many neurological conditions for us all.

The late John D. Spreckles, a founding father of modern San Diego by virtue of bringing water and rail road to the city was also owner of the Hotel Del Coronado . He introduced polo to the West, bringing English teams to play and stay at 'The Del.' Trophies from Coronado are played for to this day as the Spreckels Cup in San Diego and the Pacific Coast Open in Santa Barbara.

David N. Lewis, a Spreckles great great grandson, came to Arizona with his father David H. to learn polo with Chuck Rogers, a grandson of Will Rogers. They trained and played at Horseworld eventually Westworld and David played on the Scottsdale indoor pro team. This young polo player and Arizona all state soccer player was sports career bound, only to have a head on crash on an ATV ending any chance to play for great, great granddad's trophies. David sustained a traumatic brain injury (TBI) which nearly took his life. It most assuredly did alter it.

Brain Health Foundation began after years of searching in conventional and alternative medicine for options that work. One of those alternatives which seem to work is Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) and there is a private clinical trial treating Veterans with TBI and PTSD. Created by Paul Harch MD, this trial which upon completion could open the way for treatment for other neurological challenges is underway now. BHF wants to help vets heal these wounds of war and save their families more trauma.

According to the DAV there are 4,000 homeless veterans in Phoenix, who may have TBI and or PTSD few actually know. If those coming home have these injuries, and go without proper treatment they will turn to self medication and eventually add to the street's homeless population...or be unable to cope with life in the US and become a different statistic. Please Help!

Votes are needed every day in July to win the Pepsi $250,000 grant contest to help treat these veterans. Vote at the Pepsi site daily HYPERLINK "http://www.refresheverything.com/treatheadinjuredveterans" \t "_blank" http://www.refresheverything.com/treatheadinjuredveterans or vote on
Face book: Brain Health Foundation or Twitter HYPERLINK "http://twitter.com/BrainHealthFnd" \t "_blank" http://twitter.com/BrainHealthFnd
Donate at HYPERLINK "http://www.braininjuredveterans" www.braininjuredveterans Checks: Brain Health Foundation PO Box 3062 Carefree, AZ. 85377 or any Chase Bank account # 832649800