Shattered to Strong is free to anyone who served
Active duty, National Guard, reserve, retired or veteran. No purchase, no obligation, and nothing to sign up for. Ask and it is sent.
It is the book Joe most wants in circulation, which is why it is given away rather than sold to the people who need it most.
TEDx, podcasts, and news media
Joe explains this work anywhere it will reach somebody: from a TEDx stage, across a podcast table, and live from sixty feet underwater on a national news desk.
Most of the audience for hyperbaric medicine and brain injury research will never read a paper about either. Meeting them where they already are is not promotion, it is the same job done in a different room.
Every book, in order
A thriller, a recovery book, a hyperbaric medicine text, a children’s book, and a diving reference. They do five different jobs.
Each entry carries the title and author line as printed on the cover, the year, and the ISBN. Where a book is sold somewhere Joe can point at, the link goes straight there.
- Free to any service member
Shattered to Strong
A shift in TBI recovery rooted in science
On September 7, 2021, a T-bone collision left Joe with a traumatic brain injury, and the medical system he turned to had no solution to offer. In his own words: I had to jumpstart myself or die trying.
This is his account of the treatment plan he then built, out of hyperbaric oxygen therapy, ice therapy, occipital lobe massage, neurofeedback and neuroplasticity, with himself as the only test subject. He has his life back.
Secrets in Depth
Aboard the USS Kingfish in the Sea of Japan, a secret mission turns life threatening. Naval Commander Joe Camissa, who took the short-fused job reluctantly, ends up dangling twenty feet above the deck of a North Korean military vessel inside a half-ton atmospheric diving suit.
What follows is espionage and betrayal, worked through a severe brain injury and a disintegrating marriage. A military fact-ional thriller, technical in its detail, about what three decades of service costs the young sailor who signed up for it.
The Art and Science of Hyperbaric Medicine
A guide to hyperbaric oxygen therapy for anyone who wants to understand it properly: where the field came from in diving medicine, what happens biologically to a body under pressure, and how it is used clinically today.
A technical text written for practitioners. Joseph Dituri holds a doctorate in biomedical engineering and is not a medical doctor, and nothing in this book is a treatment recommendation for any individual.
My Daddy Wears a Different Kind of Suit to Work
Written by Joe's daughter when she was fourteen, and translated into Spanish by her as well, so the book runs in both languages. A girl explains what her father does underwater: the suit, the chamber that treats sick divers, why the ocean makes the oxygen we breathe and holds the temperature we live in, and why any of it is worth protecting.
Written and translated by Josephine Amy Dituri, who was fourteen. Printed in English and Spanish in the same volume.
The Tao of Survival Underwater
A technical diving reference, and the physiology chapter of it is the reason divers keep a copy. It covers the basics of physiology for technical divers, inert gas narcosis, oxygen and its effect on the diver, carbon dioxide retention, high pressure nervous syndrome, counter diffusion, decompression illness, hypothermia and hyperthermia, and more.
Contributing author. A multi-author reference work led by Tom Mount, also cataloged under the title Exploration and Mixed Gas Diving Encyclopedia.
Why the recovery book exists
A short documentary about a man who came through the program the book describes. He is alive to be in it. That is the argument for the book, and it is a better one than any blurb.
Everyone who appears in the film gave their consent to be there.
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Shattered to Strong describes a program, the science behind it, and one person’s experience of it. It is not a protocol to follow at home. Take anything in it to the physician treating you before acting on it, and never delay or discontinue medical care on the basis of something you read in a book.
What is Joe up to now?
The current work, the expeditions, and the arguments in progress get posted as they happen. The books are the finished version; this is the part still being worked out.