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Old 07-13-2009, 12:35 AM
mhr4
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Mark,

I am a member of many yahoo groups that focus on brain injury, rehabilitation for brain injury, neurofeedback, nutrition for brain injury, etc. There is a person, not sure if he is a doctor or not, who posts articles on one of those groups quite frequently, and he posted the article I mentioned on Iraq war vets and PCS related to PTSD. I would post it here, but to be honest, I'm too lazy to search through the archives to find it.

I am only aware of one form of PTSD therapy that can be dangerous for PCS. The other PTSD therapies are actually quit safe and very helpful for anyone who suffers from PTSD/PCS. When you have a chance, you should go back and conduct another search on PTSD therapies, I think you will find that there are many different forms that are extremely safe for the PCS population to do.

Just to let you know, Mark, that it seems you have a tendency to discredit or question a lot of what I post on here. You can rest assured that when I post something, I only do it because I have either experienced it myself, or I have done a lot of research on the subject. I, like you, have had many concussions in my life - a lot more than the 13 you have had. However, I, unlike you, have tried a lot of therapies and have learned from them what has worked and what hasn't. Actually, I have done so much therapy, and had it work, that I am now able to attend graduate school this fall. I don't know your situation and I'm not trying to discount what you are going through or what you have done in the past to rehabilitate yourself. However, please realize that I do know what I am talking about and instead of jumping on here and contradicting nearly everything that I post, you should try to learn something from my posts, as I have learned from your posts.

Thanks!




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Originally Posted by Mark in Idaho View Post
mhr4,

Where did you get the idea that "Scientists are currently finding that resolving PTSD issues in IRAQ veterans is also resolving their MTBI symptoms."

From my research, they have found that PTSD magnifies the symptoms of MTBI/PCS. It is like washing a wound (mtbi) with dirty water (PTSD) They have been trying to identify the MTBI symptoms as compared to the PTSD symptoms.

Resolving the PTSD may reduce the overlap and magnification of MTBI symptoms but it only resolves those symptoms caused or exacerbated by the PTSD.

The injuries our soldiers are coming home with are very different that those suffered here. Rarely do people in civil society have the multiple traumas, both to the brain and the psyche. Sometimes simultaneously.

I would be very careful in submitting to PTSD therapies. Some are very controversial and may be dangerous. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) may be the least risky. Light therapy, sometimes performed as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy has mixed reviews for treating PTSD.
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