A new Virginia Beach clinic designed to help Naval Special Warfare veterans with traumatic brain injuries will start its first cohort this month.
The Synapse Integrated Therapy Center will combine three types of therapy into one facility and one appointment: physical, speech-language and mental health. Clinical directors Annie Tamburello Croley and Jessica Branham said those therapies are the most referred after veterans with traumatic brain injuries (or TBIs) are assessed. Located at the Warrior for Life Fund’s Human Performance Center, all three therapies will be available in the same building.
“Our focus is treatment more than assessment, and we are hoping to just really capture service members with a focus on Special Warfare community coming out of some of these (assessment) programs, and be able to provide them long-term care,” said Tamburello…