War, a traumatic experience no matter what are you are in, nurse, sergeant,,,... Many military personnel suffer during their time and way after their time is over.. It is no secret that many military suffer from PTSD and other disorders that are the cause of seeing their friends blow up or getting shot at and although there time passed from when they watched it, it is a traumatic experience. Dr. Wayne Jonas, a retired army medical officer, discussed many of the challenges military personnel as well as veterans face in the Escape Fire video. The video showed many active military troops taking a ridiculous amount of pharmaceuticals for the pain, stress and for the resilience of the body, but that could all stop with different techniques. Throughout
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Would you give him many pharmaceutical pills, or would you let him know his other options such as acupuncture? The most common one of the two is conventional medicine, which is the treatment options that have to do with prescribing pills. Thats a problem, especially with military personnel because there prescription list is more than one can image. They are being prescribed for ….. and …… People are realising the problem and are looking into other approaches such as the Holistic approach. The holistic approach is treating military personnel through acupuncture, chiro therapy, and meditation. Many military men and women have died from overdosing from taking too many pills and there is ways to lower those chances. <<<<t often talked about are the mental ones. Many people come from the military with PTSD or depression and thats not as acknowledged in the health care as often. Medication is an enormous problem that the healthcare system doesn’t acknowledge as often. Since active troops get a massive amount of prescribed medicine they take it for whenever they feel pain, stress or need to do better and after a while they get addicting. Veterans can get addicted to the medicine they are taking because it helped with their medical issues and since they are doing for a very long period it can become a
Would you give him many pharmaceutical pills, or would you let him know his other options such as acupuncture? The most common one of the two is conventional medicine, which is the treatment options that have to do with prescribing pills. Thats a problem, especially with military personnel because there prescription list is more than one can image. They are being prescribed for ….. and …… People are realising the problem and are looking into other approaches such as the Holistic approach. The holistic approach is treating military personnel through acupuncture, chiro therapy, and meditation. Many military men and women have died from overdosing from taking too many pills and there is ways to lower those chances. <<<<t often talked about are the mental ones. Many people come from the military with PTSD or depression and thats not as acknowledged in the health care as often. Medication is an enormous problem that the healthcare system doesn’t acknowledge as often. Since active troops get a massive amount of prescribed medicine they take it for whenever they feel pain, stress or need to do better and after a while they get addicting. Veterans can get addicted to the medicine they are taking because it helped with their medical issues and since they are doing for a very long period it can become a