SHANNON WALKER – President of Northwest Battle Buddies

Topic : PTSD 

• June is PTSD Awareness month 
• Army to study if neck injection is key to defeating PTSD. Members of the special operations forces community have convinced the U.S. Army to study a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder that involves a single injection to the neck. America’s elite warfighters and the small cadre of doctors who have treated them in recent years say injections called stellate ganglion blocks may be the key to defeating PTSD. Their praise for the treatment, which alters the brain’s “fight or flight” response using ropivacaine, has convinced the army to commission a $2 million study.