Grey Team was founded to help armed services members and veterans with the physiological impacts traumatic brain injuries, post-traumatic stress disorder, chronic pain, and more. They use advanced tech, rather than medication, to help veterans recover.
As armed services members and veterans are and were our nation’s foremost armed citizens, we reached out to Cary Reichbach, founder of Grey Team and a U.S. Army veteran, to explain what they do.
Grey Team is headquartered in Boca Raton, Fla., and uses one-on-one personal training, infrared detoxification, low-level laser therapy, electromagnetic therapy, acupuncture for pain relief, 3D body scanning, community safe-spaces and much more to treat veterans and no cost to them.
“Typically the whole idea of treating post-traumatic stress or traumatic brain injury, any of the invisible wounds and visible wounds from military service,” said Reichbach, “involves numbing the pain. You know, opioids, antipsychotics, antidepressants, sleeping pills, anti-anxiety pills … they all have that in common ... . Our approach was very, very different. You know, we got together, my co-founder and I, who did two combat tours in Afghanistan as a U.S. Marine. He was the machine gunner for his squad and a lot of people don’t realize, but when you spend hours and hours a day with a heavy machine gun up next to your head, you’re having these little explosions which have a cumulative effect uh on your brain and they actually cause an inflammation response, a swelling, if you will, which is exactly the same thing as post-traumatic stress. It is a chemical inflammation of the brain and, certainly, we can mitigate those symptoms by providing antipsychotics, antidepressants, anti-anxiety pills, but [that’s] not actually treating the root cause of that issue.
“So, our approach is: let’s actually fix it. Let’s actually determine what caused this and let’s repair it,” said Reichbach. “And we do that with the highest technology available anywhere in the world. We have sourced through Germany, through Sweden, through anybody that has any type of technology that we can utilize. We’ve done studies with Florida Atlantic University School of Medicine, School of Nursing. So, everything is FDA approved. But, we’re actually doing transcranial brain lasering. We’re doing hyperbaric medicine. We’re doing vibroacoustic electromagnetic infrared.”
Reichbach explained that the last is targeting areas where they find swelling. He said that repeated impact, such as from artillery, a heavy machine gun, and more, can slowly cause parts of the brain to swell.
“Typically, the service member doesn’t even notice it at the time,” said Reichbach. “They just know something’s wrong. And they can’t pinpoint it ... . But that actual swelling is causing a reaction that will continue to kill those brain cells that are not getting enough oxygen. So, what we’re going to do is shoot lasers through the skull into the brain tissue itself. Those lasers will drop the inflammation and allow that swelling to drop enough that we’re able to get fresh oxygen-carrying blood into those tissues and revive those brain cells that are oxygen-starved.
“And we're going to combine that with hyperbaric medicine to where we’re able to actually take the oxygen molecules and shrink them down, compress them down to where they can go into the plasma of the bloodstream itself. And weave through those tiny little swollen passageways, bringing that life-giving oxygen back to the tissue. So, we’re going to stack different types of therapies on top of other therapies until we actually fix the problem.”
Each person being treated by Grey Team is treated as an individual with an individual plan. They continually communicate with the person by showing the data and scans of the brain and more.
They are located in southern Florida. They invite current service members and veterans to apply for help. The group was founded in 2016. They have been featured on FOX News, NBC News, Military.com, and many other outlets.
