A depression screening is a set of questions health professionals ask to determine whether you have this condition, which affects 21 million U.S. adults.
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The SGB procedure offered by Stella treats PTSD as a medical issue that isn’t purely psychological, utilizing anesthetic treatment in order to abate post-traumatic stress responses.
People with PTSD finding relief with a shot in the neck
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SAN DIEGO, Calif. â People who have post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are finding relief with a single shot in the neck.
The treatment, called stellate ganglion block (SGB), has been used to treat pain for nearly a century. And in recent years, it has been shown to reduce symptoms associated with PTSD significantly.
Local anesthesia is injected near a bundle of nerves in the neck, called the stellate ganglion. These nerves are a key part of the sympathetic nervous system or our fight or flight response.
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