The Army finally opens up to new ways for PTSD treatment and TBI therapies!

Valley of the Sun EFT — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:24:11 GMT

I posted this in a couple of other responses, but wanted to start a new thread to tell people about what I found out last evening!

Namaste,

Richard

Hi,

This is my first post here, but after having my Palace of Possibilities blown wide open yesterday when my roommate found this, I started looking for other people that are working with Vets. I am a Vet myself and got to talking with a Iraq vet last night about his PTSD and if he would be interested in working on releaving his symptoms (nightmares and insomnia). He was very turned on to the idea. So here goes everything! I thought everyone might like to see that our military is finally starting to realize that traditional means in treating these Vets may not work and it may finally open some new avenues. I know that this is long, but I believe it's worth it. It would be of great importance to bring EFT to the forefront on this issue.

Richard Marr - Valley of the Sun EFT

Army Tests Yoga & Meditation for
Post-Traumatic Stress

By Noah Shachtman
Source: Wired Blog

The military is scrambling for new ways to treat the brain injuries and post-traumatic stress of troops returning home from war.

And every kind of therapy -- no matter how far outside the accepted medical form -- is being considered. The Army just unveiled a $4 million program to investigate everything from 'spiritual ministry, transcendental meditation, [and] yoga' to 'bioenergies such as Qi gong, Reiki, [and] distant healing' to mend the psyches of wounded troops.

As many as 17 percent of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans have some form of post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, one congressional study estimates. Nearly 3,300 troops have suffered traumatic brain injury, or TBI, according to statistics assembled last summer. And the lifetime costs of treating these ailments could pile up to as much as $35 billion, a Columbia University report guesses.
Small wonder, then, that the government is looking for alternate means to treat these injuries. The Defense Department 'is dedicated to supporting evidence-based approaches to medical treatment and wants to support the use of alternative therapies if they are proven efficacious,' notes a recently-issued request for proposals.
But many of these treatments haven't been held up to much rigorous scientific scrutiny before. So the Army is looking to hand out $4 million in 'seedling grants' to 'conduc[t] rigorous clinical studies' into all sorts of 'novel approaches.' Projects 'containing preliminary data' will be eligible for up to $1 million. But even 'innovative but testable hypotheses without preliminary data' could get as much as $300,000. Proposals are due May 15.
'Music, animal-facilitated therapy, art, dance/movement, massage therapy, EMDR [Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing] program evaluation, virtual reality, acupuncture, spiritual ministry, transcendental meditation, [and] yoga,' might all be considered worth of the military's largess. So would 'biologically-based treatments, botanicals, and nutritional supplements for enhancing cognitive function and mood in patients with trauma spectrum disorders, including TBI and/or PTSD, depression, anxiety, and/or substance dependence/abuse.' Even proposals for wild-sounding 'therapies using bioenergies such as Qi gong, Reiki, distant healing and acupuncture' would be accepted.

This is from the actual DCoePH-TBI Program Announcement:

With the focus on a holistic approach for trauma spectrum disorders, including patients with TBI and/or post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, anxiety, and/or substance dependence/abuse, the following delineate several of the areas of interest:

1. Conducting rigorous clinical studies to determine the efficacy of alternative therapies for treating psychological health injuries using techniques such as music, animal-facilitated therapy, art, dance/movement, massage therapy, EMDR program evaluation, virtual reality, acupuncture, spiritual ministry, transcendental meditation, yoga and other novel approaches.

2. Identification of patterns of use of CAM therapies to build resilience in military populations,

3. Identification of factors and perceptions associated with use of alternative and complementary therapies by service-members,

4. Studies of mechanisms and efficacy of biologically-based treatments, botanicals, and nutritional supplements for enhancing cognitive function and mood in patients with trauma spectrum disorders, including TBI and/or PTSD, depression, anxiety, and/or substance dependence/abuse,

5. Studies that examine gender-specific implications and issues related to the use of CAM therapies,

6. Biological mechanisms and efficacy underlying acupuncture for trauma spectrum disorders, including TBI and/or PTSD, depression, amxiety, and/or substance dependence/abuse, including neuroimaging studies.

7. Identification of the use and efficacy of therapies using bioenergies such as Qi gong, Reiki, distant healing, and acupuncture, especially new biophysical approaches involving instrumentation.

Stuttering

Francois Mousnier-Lompre — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:08:49 GMT

Hi to all,

I write from France and would like to get an advice about how to heal a stuttering that occurred when I was thirty months old, when my brother was born (I was prevented from getting upstairs in the clinic where my mother was with the baby, because of contamination risks, and had a very violent fit of rage in my grandmother's car, having seen my mother at the window, waving to me and calling me - this is what I've been told, for I have no memory of the incident).

On the next morning, I stuttered (in the preceding days, an aunt of mine who lived with me had noticed my talking was deteriorating, as anxiety about the new baby increased, I guess).

I've been through many therapies, even a psychoanalysis, & speech therapy, with poor results on speech difficulties. Now I'm 54, I have been living with this problem for too long and want to get rid of it, as it prevents me from doing a lot of things.

How could I use tapping on that symptom ? The point is, I've got no memory of the initial traumatic incident (stuttering has been a pain throughout my life, much more as a child than later ; many little traumatic incidents to work on)

Anyone who healed stuttering among you EFT therapists ?

Very many thanks in advance : resolving this problem really would enhance my life !

François

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