{"id":32,"date":"2017-04-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defranciscolaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/can-heavy-military-weapons-cause-brain-injury\/"},"modified":"2017-08-31T18:29:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T22:29:42","slug":"can-heavy-military-weapons-cause-brain-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/can-heavy-military-weapons-cause-brain-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Can heavy military weapons cause brain injury?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soldiers across New York and the United States hold inherently dangerous jobs, and new concerns are being raised about your risk of suffering a brain injury due to repeated use of certain heavy military weapons. \u00a0According to NPR, the military began having its soldiers wear sensors known as blast gauges to get a better sense of how you may be affected by your surroundings while in battle, but that the sensors are no longer widely used.<\/p>\n<p>Initially intended to assess the effects of being near roadside bombs, the sensors indicated that certain weapons, such as the Carl Gustaf, a bazooka-like rifle, also resulted in considerable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2017\/04\/05\/522613294\/do-u-s-troops-risk-brain-injury-when-they-fire-heavy-weapons\" target=\"_blank\">blast exposure<\/a> to the person firing it. When you fire this particular weapon, it redirects a sharp burst of hot gas backward, which is why soldiers are supposed to be trained to stand on the side of the weapon before using it.<\/p>\n<p>A study conducted last year as part of a five-year Office of Naval Research endeavor already revealed that your use of certain heavy military weapons can affect your memory and your ability to learn and retain new information. As a result, some legislators are pushing for additional research to determine whether long-term brain injuries are also related to repeated use of heavy weaponry.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/can-heavy-military-weapons-cause-brain-injury\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Can heavy military weapons cause brain injury?\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soldiers across New York and the United States hold inherently dangerous jobs, and new concerns are being raised about your risk of suffering a brain injury due to repeated use of certain heavy military weapons. \u00a0According to NPR, the military began having its soldiers wear sensors known as blast gauges to get a better sense [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brain-injury","tag-brain-injury"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Can heavy military weapons cause brain injury? &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; April 14, 2017<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Can heavy military weapons cause brain injury? - Brain Injury - DeFrancisco &amp; Falgiatano Law Firm\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/can-heavy-military-weapons-cause-brain-injury\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Can heavy military weapons cause brain injury? &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; April 14, 2017\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Can heavy military weapons cause brain injury? - Brain Injury - DeFrancisco &amp; Falgiatano Law Firm\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jeff DeFrancisco\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Can heavy military weapons cause brain injury? &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; April 14, 2017","description":"Can heavy military weapons cause brain injury? - Brain Injury - DeFrancisco &amp; Falgiatano Law Firm","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/can-heavy-military-weapons-cause-brain-injury\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"Can heavy military weapons cause brain injury? &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; April 14, 2017","twitter_description":"Can heavy military weapons cause brain injury? - Brain Injury - DeFrancisco &amp; Falgiatano Law Firm","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Jeff DeFrancisco","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/can-heavy-military-weapons-cause-brain-injury\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/can-heavy-military-weapons-cause-brain-injury\/"},"author":{"name":"Jeff DeFrancisco","@id":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/798006ba40dee3a60d61603f8022a9f9"},"headline":"Can heavy military weapons cause brain injury?","datePublished":"2017-04-14T00:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2017-08-31T22:29:42+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/can-heavy-military-weapons-cause-brain-injury\/"},"wordCount":354,"keywords":["Brain Injury"],"articleSection":["Brain Injury"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/can-heavy-military-weapons-cause-brain-injury\/","url":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/can-heavy-military-weapons-cause-brain-injury\/","name":"Can heavy military weapons cause brain injury? &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; April 14, 2017","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2017-04-14T00:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2017-08-31T22:29:42+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/798006ba40dee3a60d61603f8022a9f9"},"description":"Can heavy military weapons cause brain injury? - Brain Injury - DeFrancisco &amp; Falgiatano Law Firm","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/can-heavy-military-weapons-cause-brain-injury\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/can-heavy-military-weapons-cause-brain-injury\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/can-heavy-military-weapons-cause-brain-injury\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Can heavy military weapons cause brain injury?"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/","name":"Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog","description":"Published by New York Medical Malpractice Attorneys \u2014 DeFrancisco &amp; Falgiatano","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/798006ba40dee3a60d61603f8022a9f9","name":"Jeff DeFrancisco","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7f6660cf0b9e029623b52ccc2e33d1fef7eb66d590325c2b6a1fb85d5ef1e2cb?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7f6660cf0b9e029623b52ccc2e33d1fef7eb66d590325c2b6a1fb85d5ef1e2cb?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7f6660cf0b9e029623b52ccc2e33d1fef7eb66d590325c2b6a1fb85d5ef1e2cb?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Jeff DeFrancisco"}}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574,"href":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}