Making the Invisible Wounds Visible
This is sixteen years of foundational science arriving at its moment of proof. We have traced the persistent, debilitating symptoms of mild traumatic brain injury back to their structural roots — and we are now conducting the clinical trial that will make those findings impossible for medicine and policy to ignore. What we discover, we will hand directly to the Department of War, SOCOM, CENTCOM, and the VA — not to manage the wounds, but to end them.
What Makes the Study Different
A Unique Approach
For decades, mild traumatic brain injury has been called an invisible wound — not because the suffering isn't real, but because the existing evaluation models have never been able to identify its full root cause. The headaches that outlast every treatment, the fog, the sleeplessness, the emotional dysregulation, the dizziness — these are real symptoms, thoroughly documented and consistently unresolved. They point to an origin that the prevailing model of mTBI has never fully evaluated — the craniocervical junction.
The craniocervical junction (CCJ), where the skull meets the upper cervical spine, is the neurological, vascular, and fluid-dynamic crossroads between the body and the brain. This study is not about replacing what we know. It is about revealing what we have been missing.
Sponsors & Support — The Scientific Coalition
A Four-Phase Path
Where We Are
This study does not end with data collection. It ends with policy change — and it gets there in four funded research phases. Each one is a complete, publishable body of work that de-risks the next. We are currently in Phase 1. Explore each phase to see its goal, its impact, and where the funding stands today.
Fifty veterans, precise upper-cervical care, and the first published evidence that the craniocervical model works.
Explore Phase →Twenty veterans across two treatment lanes while we build and prove the full trial's operational machine.
Explore Phase →380 more veterans, 400 in total, randomized across three arms — the definitive trial.
Explore Phase →Final analysis and multi-journal publication that carries the findings into DoD and VA policy.
Explore Phase →Every Dollar Moves This Forward
Fund the Work, One Phase at a Time
The full program is $23.5 million, staged across four phases. You can stand behind the phase we're funding now, or commit early to the ones ahead. Click any phase to see exactly where it stands.
A Mission That Takes a Team
How To Support
Invest in the Science
This study is designed to move the standard of care — a full-spectrum, root-cause investigation into mild traumatic brain injury rigorous enough to reshape DoD policy and redirect VA treatment.
Your investment is that belief in action.
Fund the MissionLend Your Voice
If your organization has been fighting for veterans, operators, athletes, or the truth about brain injury — your endorsement tells funders and policymakers that the people who understand what is at stake believe in this work.
Stand with us.
Add Your EndorsementStrengthen the Science
We are building a research coalition with the institutional depth to produce findings that medicine and policy cannot ignore. If you represent an imaging center, a university, or bring clinical expertise — there may be a place for you.
The right partners make the science stronger.
Explore a PartnershipConnect Someone to an Answer
Do you know a veteran, an operator, or an NFL athlete who has been living with symptoms that no treatment has resolved? Refer them to this study. Enrollment opens in Phase 2.
They have been waiting long enough.
Refer a Participant