CAMP LEJEUNE -- As part of Brain Injury Awareness Month, the Intrepid Spirit Concussion Recovery Center is bringing awareness to invisible wounds.

On Friday, the center hosted a traumatic brain injury expo aboard Camp Lejeune to help service members and veterans understand the resources available to them.

More than 50 vendors, who offer early diagnosis, support, and treatment options for brain injuries, attended the event in an effort to help TBI patients on their road to recovery.

"We really want people to get services in a timely manner and to get cognitive help, to see a neuro-psychologists, to get insurance to cover their PT and OT,” said Susan Fewell with the Brain Injury Association of North Carolina. “After a brain injury people can improve and that's important."

The Brain Injury Association of North Carolina says they estimate more than 200,000 North Carolinians are currently living with long term effects of brain injury.