BrainTrain Offers Thank You Gift To Brain-Injured Veterans

Home version of Captain's Log to be given away free to vets

BrainTrain is asking for your support in helping head-injured veterans. Military doctors are saying that brain damage has emerged as the “signature wound”
of the Iraq war.*

While body armor protects military personnel from explosions and vehicle accidents that soldiers in previous wars could never have survived, the brain remains quite vulnerable. To compound the problem, it’s often difficult for doctors to differentiate between the effects of a head injury, psychological stress and depression. This can mean that many brain injuries suffered during active military duty may inadvertently be left untreated.

Since 1989, most of BrainTrain’s mission has involved developing ways of helping brain-injured individuals. The company’s flagship product, the Captain’s Log cognitive training software, is a worldwide best-seller, used by professional therapists, hospitals, and schools in all 50 states and in numerous foreign countries. Developed by Dr. Joseph Sandford, a clinical psychologist and company president, as a tool to serve his own clients, Captain’s Log has now helped many more individuals than he could ever possibly see personally.

Seeing the heart-wrenching daily news, BrainTrain has answered the call to make this resource available to benefit our veterans. The company is offering the home version of the Captain’s Log cognitive training software system free to personnel who have suffered brain injuries in the line of duty while serving their country in Iraq or Afghanistan.

The Captain’s Log system provides a comprehensive set of mental workouts - thousands of different “games” to improve memory, attention, mental processing speed, impulse control, and problem solving. Because it is game-like, the software makes it fun and interesting for people to do the work needed to restore their mental functioning.

If you know of brain-injured veterans who would benefit from doing daily brain-building exercises on their PCs, please make them or their families aware of this offer. Their healthcare professional will need to complete the Free Captain’s Log @ Home Order Form and fax it back to BrainTrain. The healthcare professional does not need to provide any identifying information to BrainTrain about the veteran using the software.

Neither the veteran, the veteran’s family, nor the healthcare professional has any obligation to BrainTrain, and there is no need to send anything back to the company upon completion of the training. If the need arises, BrainTrain will provide the name of an experienced professional who has very kindly volunteered her services free of charge to help set up a training protocol for the software user.

For more information, please contact BrainTrain at 1-800-822-0538. For more about the home version of Captain’s Log, click here.

*Gregg Zoroya, USA Today, March 3, 2005: Key Iraq Wound: Brain Trauma. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-03-03-brain-trauma-lede_x.htm