Stellate Ganglion Block "resets the nerve system the way God built it"

I keep reading report after report looking for something new with PTSD. While you read a lot of reports on this blog about people suffering after trauma, there are hundreds of other news articles and reports you don't see simply because I decide not to post them. Either there is very little value in the report or it's been done to "death" and picked up all over the blog world. Still I keep hoping after all these years of researching PTSD someone would finally come up with something new. It looks as if someone finally did.

Quick relief of PTSD anxiety
By William Hageman Chicago Tribune reporter
August 10, 2008
Jason Brown's return home from a yearlong tour of duty in Iraq should have been happier. But there were nightmares, tension, the constant feeling of being on edge.

"I'd see things out of the corner of my eye, I'd see shadows," says the 29-year-old Army reservist, an engineering technician, who came home to Peoria in July 2007. "I'd be suspicious of things; they were out of place. I didn't sleep well."

He was diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder, an all-too-common issue among returning military personnel, but one that's not often acknowledged. PTSD can result in nightmares, sleeplessness, restlessness, anger, or an inability to trust others.

It can be triggered by any number of traumatic events, such as sexual or physical abuse, a violent crime, a dangerous event such as tornado or fire, or war.

"These are proud military guys," says Dr. Deborah Little, assistant professor of neurology and director of magnetic resonance research at the University of Illinois at Chicago. "You don't talk about anxiety. That's not part of the culture."

Estimates of how many veterans suffer from PTSD range as high as 50 percent. What's not disputed is that most of them are undiagnosed. Dr. Eugene Lipov refers to the growing problem as "the reverse surge."

"It resets the nerve system the way God built it," he says.
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