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- Ana Maria Mihalcea, MD, Supervising physician, Mercy Blu Room Program Cynthia’s Story:
A pilot who served in Afghanistan, Cynthia returned home from the war and was struck by a pickup truck, suffering a traumatic brain injury. After trying physical and speech therapy, she started Blu Room treatments. “The Blu Room was very peaceful and therapeutic,” Cynthia said. She went three to four times per week for 20 sessions. “My short-term memory was coming back thanks to the Blu Room sessions.”
An brief overview of the science
The Blu Room is a patented technology that shields the user from the outside world. It provides an environment that induces a deep state of mental and physical tranquility. The room includes music to provide a relaxing — and for many people a therapeutic — effect on the individual within. Speaking as a former Top Gun fighter pilot, any treatment that includes music, relaxation, and soft lighting seems at first to be a bit too “touchy and
