Using Morning Light to Improve Sleep in Veterans With Brain Injury and PTSD

This study is testing whether morning bright light therapy can help veterans who are dealing with a combination of traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and chronic pain. The idea is simple: by improving your sleep with a bright light device used each morning, the therapy may also help reduce your other symptoms and improve your overall quality of life. Researchers believe that poor sleep makes these conditions worse, so targeting sleep might break that difficult cycle.

Many veterans live with the challenging combination of traumatic brain injury, PTSD, and chronic pain all at the same time, and these conditions make each other worse. Sleep problems are a major part of this struggle, and this trial exists because researchers believe that improving sleep with this non-medication treatment could help reduce all of these symptoms at once.