Dr. Michael Kilgard

So the answer was 50% of people got 50% better.

That is called 75% of the problem is still there, not very good.

In addition, we had something called sequestration when the federal government shut down and a large military trial we were going to run got canceled.

That was years ago.

We've been doing this a long time.

But there's just hiccups along the way, political or whatever else.

We were going to invest in it because it was the number one disability in the military, so we were going to invest in it.

Let's treat it.

And then we got sidelined.

Stroke had the advantage that unlike chronic pain and tenderness, we know exactly what causes it.

So my team switched to stroke because there's no controversy about stroke.

No one's faking it.

I can measure it very easily.

I can see the hole in the head.

I can see their functions.

With tinnitus and chronic pain, you can't know.

Spinal cord injury, same thing.

You know what causes spinal cord injury.

They had a fight or a car accident or a fall or a boating accident.

For PTSD, it's the only mental illness we know what causes it.