STEVE KNIGHT: “I thank the chairman and the ranking member for their leadership on all veteran issues. Mr. Speaker, today I rise in…”

“I thank the chairman and the ranking member for their leadership on all veteran issues. Mr. Speaker, today I rise in support of H.R. 1162, the No Hero Left Untreated Act. I rise today to stand with our Nation's veterans for whom the trauma from the battlefield does not always appear. Whether it is PTS, TBI, MST, chronic pain, or opioid drugs addiction, the pilot program established by this bill would provide an innovative individualized treatment for all-too-common diagnoses that our veterans face today. Using a suite of FDA-approved medical tools, the magnetic EEG/EKG- guided resonance therapy, or MeRT, is a nonpharmaceutical and noninvasive procedure that has already shown great promise. This bill requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish the pilot program, treat 50 veterans using MeRT at two different VA locations, and then come back with a report at the end of that. Already at the Brain Treatment Center in California, 98 percent of veterans in recent trials have experienced at least a 10-point change in their military PTSD checklist, or PCL-M, which ranges from 17 to 80. The Active-Duty military has already begun clinical trials using the MeRT procedure at Tinker Air Force Base, concluding that ``transcranial MeRT is a promising adjuvant treatment modality to help veterans suffering from PTSD.'' In fact, after 4 weeks of active treatment, MeRT reduced the average PCL-M score from 66 to 37. U.S.…”