The Department of Defense held programs of some unusual weapons for treating the injuries, including paint guns and Nintendo Wii motion-sensitive video games integrated into therapy at new trauma centers around the country. This program was following the statement of US President who stated that his new military and veterans affairs budget will focus on diagnosing brain injuries and psychological disabilities that have gone untreated.

The director of newly opened brain injury care center at Fort Campbell, Dr. David Twillie, also stated that because the brain is a fairly complex organ and because when they experience a fall or a blast, there’s no way to necessarily pinpoint what particular structures within the brain were injured, because the injuries are microscopic in nature.

The doctors of military estimated that 10-20% sent to war could suffer symptoms such minor headaches or dizziness to memory loss or vision problems. And it can take some soldiers a while to realize how severely they’ve been affected. One of the programs regarding brain injuries was using a Nintendo Wii game system which can help coordination skills problems with its motion-sensitive controller (news.yahoo.com).

In the area of Kentucky, for example, the army has been played Wii intensely. This is related to a new program to see if there is a brain injury on them during a military assignment. This is where Nintendo Wii also relied on the side of some other device. This popular game console is used to measure how the level of coordination between hand and brain of the army is. Hopefully, Nintendo Wii can help doctors diagnose the injury with right brain. Otherwise, in the case of brain injury are often descend the army. The triggers were many, from the bomb explosion up to a vehicle accident.

(from various resources, mainly news.yahoo.com)