(Michael Reed/Your Houston News)
War veterans returning to the Greater Houston Area may soon benefit from research showing trauma they experienced on the battlefield is not so different from that suffered by some civilian accident victims.
At UT-Health Medical and other schools, this could result in curriculum changes to improve the treatment of local veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder in the years to come.
“Whether you fall off a ladder or you’re in a battle and your vehicle rolls over, it is basically the same injury, providing there is no penetrating (head) wound,” said Dr. John Holcomb, a trauma surgeon at Memorial-Hermann. “The only huge difference is the wounding agent.”
He said, similarly, PTSD has been found to have more to do with actual physical and mental suffering than it does the environment where that took place.
(Read more at Your Houston News)
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