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"The "recovered memories" of early life abuse and trauma uncovered by psychotherapy have proved to be highly unreliable and have often resulted in the retraumatization of the patient. What works better for victims of such trauma is a very direct, specific approach—based not on mining the past, but focused on improving the present." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Level I also means that a trauma treatment room equipped with state-of-the-art equipment is always available for seriously injured patients and that a trauma operating room is always ready for surgery. A Level II trauma center is at a slightly lesser state of readiness in that the designated trauma center staff may not necessarily be in the hospital, but must be available within thirty minutes after a trauma alert is called." - Sheldon P. Blau, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.A.C.R. and Elaine Fantle Shimberg, How to Get Out of the Hospital Alive: A Guide to Patient Power (Get the book.)

"What works better for victims of such trauma is a very direct, specific approach—based not on mining the past, but focused on improving the present. Short-term crisis counseling immediately after a traumatic event—the kind practiced by no doubt well-intentioned social workers and psychologists who descend on dazed victims and witnesses after some immense tragedy, like school shootings and Hurricane Katrina and 9/11—has been shown to be unhelpful, and sometimes destructive.37 Medication or therapy, it is important to understand that there are no panaceas." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Trauma of some sort is commonly reported at the outset of symptoms. The trauma can be from an injury or even following serious surgery. As people segue from having just widespread pain to having FM, they also start looking more and more like patients with CFS. They develop more problems with fatigue and unrefreshing sleep, and often complain that even minimal exertion produces a dramatic worsening of their fatigue. I will discuss the overlap between these syndromes toward the end of this chapter." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Distinguished Professor of Plastic Surgery, Biomedical Engineering and Emergency Medicine, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia; Director of trauma Prevention, Research and Education, trauma Specialists, LLP, Legacy Emanuel Hospital, Portland, Oregon. The Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2007 Aug;33(2):199-211. Epub 2007 Jun 18. The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, as amended, established the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP)." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Although there is no information as to whether a relation exists among these three factors, one guess would be that women with lower income and less education might do more physically demanding jobs that could lead to injury. trauma of some sort is commonly reported at the outset of symptoms. The trauma can be from an injury or even following serious surgery. As people segue from having just widespread pain to having FM, they also start looking more and more like patients with CFS." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Distinguished Professor of Plastic Surgery, Biomedical Engineering and Emergency Medicine, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia; Director of trauma Prevention, Research and Education, trauma Specialists, LLP, Legacy Emanuel Hospital, Portland, Oregon. The Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2007 Aug;33(2):199-211. Epub 2007 Jun 18. The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, as amended, established the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP)." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"For one of my patients, who was traumatized by losing both his job and his girlfriend, I suggested that he start each day by getting to the gym, to keep from stewing in the trauma. He could also shift the flow from fear to action circuits by making a list of potential employers to call—a more classic example of active coping—but it wouldn't affect the brain as broadly. By doing something other than sitting and worrying, we reroute our thought process around the passive-response center and dilute the fear, while at the same time optimizing the brain to learn a new scenario." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"Studies in 2002 indicated that as many as 35 percent of the individuals exposed to the trauma of 9/11 could be at risk for developing post-traumatic stress disorder.10 Five years later, that possibility became a reality when the high-school-aged children who initially experienced America's worst terrorist attack began showing an increased demand for anxiety-related treatment. In March 2007, the Yale Medical Group reported on a study conducted by the Anxiety Disorders Association of America (ADAA)." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"Causes of Hiatus Hernia are usually unknown but may be related to a congenital abnormality, trauma or overeating. There is no specific medical treatment for a hiatus hernia, other than not eating large meals before bed or sleeping with the head of the bed elevated. In rare cases surgery may be necessary. For treatment see Acid Reflux/Heartburn, Barrett's Esophagus and Dysphagia for treatments. 'a hiccough is an involuntary spasm of the diaphragm. It may be a repetitive occurrence, every few minutes. Air travels quickly into the lungs and causes the epiglottis (a flap in the throat) to close." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"The experience and trauma of war bolstered belief in the environmental causations of mental illness. Meanwhile, genetic and hereditary explanations lost substantial ground in the face of the tragic evidence of the damage that experience could do.47 In the optimistic glow immediately following the war, Americans really did believe that psychoanalysis could help make the postwar world a better place. In 1945, Menninger could write that "psychiatry, for better or worse, is receiving a tremendously increased interest." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "On the inverse side, veterans of the Vietnam and Gulf wars who have suffered from trauma have reduced hippocampi. It has been proven that the release of the hormone Cortisol, under stress, literally kills cells in the hippocampus.) All of this goes to show that Shakespeare wasn't so far off the mark when he wrote in Hamlet: "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"You come to the conclusion that you're unsafe and can't protect yourself. The trauma and pain you're feeling are real, but extra layers of fat can't change what happened to you and won't protect you from anything. In part two, I'll show you how to create real safety by dealing with real issues. Conclusion # 4: Your Rebellion Layer You're angry at your kids for never listening. You come to the conclusion that eating is better than expressing how you really feel. You're afraid that if you express how angry you are at them you'll scream uncontrollably or maybe even hit them." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.)

"This may include systemic health problems, abnormal pregnancy, foreign bodies, trauma, infections, and growths. Systemic diseases that are associated with problems in how the blood clots are called coagulopathies and can cause heavy vaginal bleeding. Heavy bleeding in a teenage girl may be caused by a coagulopathy called von Willebrand's disease. In fact, 20 percent of teenage girls with severe menorrhagia have a significant coagulation problem. A decrease in the number of blood platelets (thrombocytopenia) can also cause abnormal bleeding." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"The inside of your nose is lined with hundreds of tiny blood vessels just inside your nostrils, and they are very vulnerable to trauma. What's traumatic to your nose? Well, for one thing, there's digital trauma. Say again? Okay—nose-picking. Even though you've no doubt matured beyond the vigorous nose hunts of childhood and now probe adultly with a tissue-wrapped finger, the result can still be the same. Even a cotton swab can irritate the lining of the nose. Another nasal trauma is the cold, dry air of winter." - the Editors of PREVENTION Magazine Health Books, Symptoms: Their Causes & Cures : How to Understand and Treat 265 Health Concerns (Get the book.)

"If you are reluctant to seek out help due to past trauma or just a feeling of discomfort, it is essential that you find a health-care practitioner you can trust. Have a friend (or even therapist) come with you to the office and even to the exam room to hold your hand, ask questions, and be there for you. Since the key to prevention of further pain is early diagnosis, prompt medical intervention can lead to more effective assistance in supporting your body's own ability to heal itself." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Ideas about how to raise children in a loving manner, and reduce the incidence of childhood trauma, are very valuable and can improve the long-term quality of life in a profound way. Others are less useful. A meme that undervalues people of different cultures, races, or classes can spread contempt and strife through society. Such memes are like viruses; they not only spread from one person to another, but can also make society as a whole sick. This is what lies behind the malignant aspects of modern culture." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"Five- to ten-minute transition periods between rest and exercise and then rest are important to help the metabolic, circulatory, and neuromuscular systems adapt without injury or trauma. A recommended warm-up is Joint Warming Exercises (see instructions). 4. Proper equipment. Safety equipment and quality footwear are important for all sports. For the runner this may mean reflective tape and $50 to $100 shoes; for the cycler, this means a hard helmet; for the racquetball player, goggles, etc. 5. Gradual progression." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"My online client Lexy, for example, uses food to protect herself from early memories of trauma. "When Rex abused me," she writes, "I wasn't old enough to stop it or process the feelings, or figure anything out. I let the choice of becoming overweight happen. Because he was fat and ugly and I didn't want to touch him or be touched intimately by him, I think my ten-year-old mind assumed that if I became fat and ugly, he wouldn't want to touch me, either. It didn't work that way; it only generated painful contempt from others, but I didn't know how to find a different choice . . ." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.)

"I started doing regular energy healing work on him, introduced him to meditation, and used hypnotic regression to help him release old trauma. His health improvements came slowly (though measurably), but he maintained an optimistic attitude throughout. He stuck with his program for two years and even extended his diplomatic stay in the United States so he could complete his work with me. During this period, the amount of time between our sessions lengthened, based on how long he could go without experiencing pain. Eventually, the pain went away completely." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.) "Severe stress, depression, anxiety, grief, or trauma are known psychogenic factors that contribute to the onset and severity of physical illness. Psychogenic illness is not to be confused with psychosomatic illness, which is the artificial creation of symptoms caused by mental processes of the sufferer without physiological cause. With psychogenic illness, the illness also has a biological basis; it is real. Psychotherapy—An interpersonal, relational intervention used by trained psychotherapists to help clients deal with a wide range of mental and emotional problems." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"Or you can even use the idea of parallel worlds, which I will cover in more detail later, to imagine a new outcome in which the event or trauma never occurred in the way you have previously remembered. The really weird part about doing this is that after you have successfully accomplished an activity of this nature, sometimes you or another person involved in your trauma can no longer precisely recall the details of it. In essence, you can learn to Time Travel backward to when something wasn't! Mathematician Roger Penrose presents the logical view that time cannot be pinpointed at all." - Richard Bartlett, Matrix Energetics: The Science and Art of Transformation (Get the book.)

"Adverse Effects Common: headache, nausea, vaginal discomfort, vaginal candidiasis Rare: vaginal trauma from the applicator if patient has severe atrophy Dosing and Administration Daily dosing will achieve systemic concentrations. Low dose, l-3x/week, will achieve predominantly local effects. Drug Interactions See oral estrogens (except antibiotics and nicotine); interactions are based on extent of systemic absorption. ORAL ESTROGEN-PROGESTIN COMBINATIONS Activella 1 mg 17 beta-estradiol/0." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"All stress and trauma, whether physical or emotional, causes a loss of the body's stores of magnesium. And if you don't have enough magnesium to begin with, you run the risk of more serious reactions." The typical magnesium-deficient American diet produces little magnesium for the body to store, so stress may quickly put you into the red. "In essence, you are creating a second front of stress, and thus you have intensification of stress reactions," Seelig contended. " - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"Stress Factors: Aging, trauma, medications, disease, infection, and "stress" itself all accelerate the body's production of free radicals—oftentimes by a factor of eight times or more. Chain Reactions: When a free radical steals an electron to balance itself out, it creates a new free radical in the molecule from which it stole the electron. In many cases the new free radical will seek to balance itself out by stealing an electron—and so on, and so on. And remember, even one free radical is capable of destroying an entire cell, or a strand of DNA. Are All Free Radicals the Same?" - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"During the screenings at Iowa State University, therapists played videos for the students to watch, including Life After Trauma: What Every Person Should Know, which was produced by Pfizer, the maker of Zoloft. "When I began taking the questionnaire, I got more anxious because I wondered if I would have symptoms of having an emotional condition," wrote Katie Melson of her experience in an article in the Iowa State Daily, the student newspaper. "I could feel the stress building as mid-term week approached." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"The incidence of birth trauma in the unrecognized group (25%) was significantly greater than in control group (0%), diet group (0.3%), and insulin group (1%). There was a significantly higher rate of hyperbilirubinemia, hypocalcemia, polycythemia, and neonatal ICU admission in the unrecognized group when compared to the control group (13% versus 0%). In a case control study of 555 women with untreated GDM, one or more of five indicators were measured (stillbirth, neonatal macrosomia, neonatal hypoglycemia, erythro-cytosis, and hyperbilirubinemia)." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "If skeletal fragility develops, bone fractures can occur with minimal or no trauma, a condition known as osteoporosis. The ability to reverse bone deficits with early diagnosis and treatment remains uncertain. Amenorrhea most often results from excessive exercise or energy intakes too low to sustain physiologic levels of estrogen. Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat. In this condition body weight is less than 86% of normal for height and age." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Pain is also associated with vitamin D deficiency, and minimal trauma fractures may also occur. These alone are not specific enough for diagnosis; however, they should be triggers to seek vitamin D testing. B. Clinical Conditions Associated with Vitamin D Deficiency and Insufficiency 1. Rickets and Osteomalacia Vitamin D deficiency results in rickets and osteomalacia, the former name used to describe the clinical signs observed in children, the latter name being those signs in adults." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "INTRODUCTION Osteoporosis is a global skeletal disorder of decreased bone strength in which the only important consequence is an increased risk for fracture with minimal trauma. The term porosis means "spongelike," which aptly describes the appearance of that portion of the skeleton, the trabecular skeleton, which is most afflicted with this disease (Figure 1). Bone strength is a complex function integrating bone mineral density and bone quality." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

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