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Original Source: Integrated Treatment for Chronic Pain and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
The purpose of this study is to examine the efficacy of an integrated treatment for Veterans with comorbid chronic pain and posttraumatic stress disorder. It is hypothesized that Veterans who receive the integrated treatment will report more positive outcomes than individuals who are assigned to treatment as usual, pain treatment, or PTSD treatment.
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Pain is defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain as “an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in term...
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Long Waits in the ER May Raise PTSD Risk for Heart Patients
MONDAY, Feb. 11 -- People waiting for countless hours in crowded emergency rooms to be treated for a heart attack or severe chest pain may be at risk for developing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTS...
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Opioid Use Among US Veterans—Reply
In Reply: Dr Hermos notes that the high proportion (41%) of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans with pain and PTSD diagnoses in Veterans Affairs health care prescribed both opioids and sedative hypnotics is...
Veteran, UT Dallas Senior Finds Tools to Battle PTSD
(Medical Xpress) -- There are 1.7 million veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan, and at least a third of them suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, according to the National Center for PTS...
Expanding the Boundaries of PTSD Treatment
How best to treat posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a long-standing question. Treatments for PTSD, which began in the late 19th century, have varied greatly. In the current era, numerous PTSD tr...
Stroke survivors with PTSD more likely to avoid treatment
A new survey of stroke survivors has shown that those with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are less likely to adhere to treatment regimens that reduce the risk of an additional stroke. Researche...
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in children: an interview with Donna Gillies
Children with PTSD suffer significant distress or negative impacts on their daily lives. Estimates of the prevalence of PTSD in children and adolescents experiencing trauma are generally very high, at...
Burden of full & subsyndromal PTSD in police who responded to the World Trade Center disaster
(Elsevier Health Sciences) Studies have found that police demonstrated considerable resilience to PTSD compared to other disaster workers after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the World Tra...
Tips for how to help someone with PTSD
You don't have to be a member of the armed forces to have post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but nearly 20 percent of service members deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan reported having symptoms. In...
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BACKGROUND: Research has established a significant relationship between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and pain; however, very little research has examined the differential role of PTSD...
This study examined the efficacy of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) in reducing behaviors commonly used as exclusion criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) treatment. The sample included...
Diagnostic Criteria of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders.
The origination of the diagnosis "post-traumatic stress disorder" (PTSD) is discussed in relation to its historical and diagnostic aspects. The different criteria for PTSD are analyzed in accordance w...
Treatment-related reductions in PTSD and changes in physical health symptoms in women.
This study examined the relationship between change in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms over the course of PTSD treatment and the association with changes in general physical health sympt...
PTSD among a treatment sample of repeat DUI offenders.
Recent studies indicate that posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is one of the most common psychiatric comorbidities among driving-under-the-influence (DUI) offenders in treatment. Investigation of D...
