BACKGROUND Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with increased risk for age-related diseases and early mortality. An accelerated rate of biological aging could contribute to this increased risk. To investigate, we assessed leukocyte telomere length (LTL), an emerging marker of biological age, in men and women with and without PTSD. We also examined childhood trauma, a risk factor ...

growing body of research demonstrates that individuals who experience trauma, particularly in childhood, have much higher incidences of chronic disease and behavioral health issues.1,2,3 Advocates of trauma‐informed care suggest that to fully address patients’ needs, health care providers and delivery systems must recognize the role that trauma plays in the lives of their patients and adjust tr...

Trauma is the psychophysiological situation of the sufferer due to severe life or health threat, which in chronic spectrum initiates long term depression. Several accidental and genetic issues have been shown to be associated with the occurrence of trauma. Studies have shown that both accidental and genetic events of trauma are associated with secondary disease pathology. However, trauma induce...

Autobiographical memory, that is, our memory for personal life experiences, is integral to our sense of self. However, the experience of trauma can create distortions in how our memories are bought to mind. In particular, trauma can produce an overgeneral memory style, which relates to the development of both PTSD and depression. However, theory states that immediately following a traumatic eve...

BACKGROUND Yoga has been found to be an effective posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) treatment for a variety of trauma survivors, including females with chronic PTSD. Aim/Purpose: The current study builds on extant research by examining an extended trauma-sensitive yoga treatment for women with chronic PTSD. The study sought to optimize the results of a treatment protocol examined in a recent...

The fi rst publication that identifi ed injury and surgery as major risk factors for chronic pain appeared in 1998.1 This paper reported that around 40% of 5130 chronic pain patients in 10 pain clinics in the United Kingdom had developed their chronic pain problem after surgery or trauma. This fi nding has led to a dramatic increase in interest in this subject; searches on PubMed for key words ...

Research has established that chronic stress, including traumatic events, leads to adverse health outcomes. The literature has primarily used two approaches: examining the effect of acute stress in a laboratory setting and examining the link between chronic stress and negative health outcomes. However, the potential health impact of a single or acute traumatic event is less clear. The goal of t...

The pervasive effects of cumulative harm resulting from adverse childhood experiences influence all aspects an individual’s life course. Research highlights a relationship between accumulation and trauma symptomology across domains risk. A systematic literature review was conducted to explore synthesize the current evidence base for contribution makes psychological physical injury trauma. searc...

Torture survivors often report chronic debilitating physical and psychological distress. Prior research on the relationship between physical and psychological trauma suggests that the 2 are not independent. Injury sustained during torture may increase the likelihood of subsequent distress as either a moderator or mediator. For long-term psychopathology in a sample of Punjabi Sikh survivors of h...

Soft-tissue hematomas are a common clinical entity often associated with trauma, surgery, and bleeding disorders. In the majority of cases, soft-tissue hematomas acutely appear and spontaneously resolve, but sometimes, they present as swellings that slowly expand and progressively increase with time. We present a case of a 70-year-old man with chronic expanding hematoma of the left flank withou...