Category: Military

Veterans / Ex-Servicemen Anxiety / Stress Complementary Medicine / Alternative Medicine Psychology / Psychiatry Transcendental Meditation May Reduce PTSD Symptoms, Medication Use In Active-Duty Personnel

Military 01/15/201601/14/2016 admin 0 Comments

Regular practice of Transcendental Meditation enables some active duty service members battling post-traumatic stress disorder to reduce or even eliminate their psychotropic medication and get better control of their often-debilitating symptoms, researchers report in the journal Military Medicine. The study looked at 74 active-duty service members with PTSD or anxiety disorder, often resulting from multiple deployments over multiple years, who were seeking treatment at Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center’s Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic at […]

Anxiety / Stress Veterans / Ex-Servicemen Emergency Medicine Depression Veterans and Civilian Patients At Risk Of ICU-Related PTSD Up To A Year Post Discharge

Military 01/14/2016 admin 0 Comments

One in ten patients is at risk of having new post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) related to their ICU experience up to a year post-discharge. This was the finding from a multicenter, prospective cohort research study of veterans and civilians. The research was published online ahead of print in the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. In the study “Incidence and Risk Factors for ICU-related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Veterans and […]

Symptoms and quality of life after military brain injury – Research update from Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation

Military 01/09/201601/08/2016 admin 0 Comments

New research shows four distinct patterns of symptoms after mild traumatic brain injury(TBI) in military service members, and validates a new tool for assessing the quality-of-life impact of TBI. The studies appear in the January-February issue of The Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation (JHTR), an annual special issue devoted to TBI in the military. The official journal of the Brain Injury Association of America, JHTR is published by Wolters Kluwer. In print and online, the […]

Breakthrough Found In The Treatment Of Posttraumatic Stress

Military, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder 01/02/201612/28/2016 admin

BY FRANK BOURKE, PHD September 11, 2001. The events that occurred on that day shook the world to its roots. Hundreds of survivors of the attacks, the first responders who survived the horrors of that day and many family members, began to suffer from exposure to that extreme trauma. The resulting posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms began to take a toll on their lives. To help deal with this flood of PTSD victims, a group […]

Ramblings of a Mother Warrior

Autism, Military 12/25/201512/24/2015 admin 0 Comments

PUZZLES & CAMO BY SHELLY HUHTANEN There is nothing a caring neighbor with a delicious muffin can’t mend, or the sense of comfort knowing a sister warrior lives down the street that feels my anxiety and stress. Irrational. Emotional. Over exaggerated. Hostile. Aggressive. Combative. Unstable. Haven’t we heard these terms before when describing parents fighting for their special needs kids? My son is regressing in his school and I’m furious. I’m angry and it is […]