The number of people that are in the US who are affected with PTSD is estimated to be equivalent to roughly the population of Florida; more than 20 million people at any given time.
It's a serious issue for many and a great deal of people feel that there is a desperate need for creative methods to try and help the problem, to ease the pain that many are suffering from.
We've heard that many veterans have been turning to CBD and cannabis to try and seek remedy for their PTSD, where traditional methods might have failed them, and there are some other interesting ideas that veterans have been looking to for help as well.
Because conventional treatments have failed so many to find the remedy that they're looking for, there has been a push for alternative treatments to try and help and one of them is looking to acupuncture.
To be fair, acupuncture certainly isn't anything new, it's been around for thousands of years. But there has been growing interest surrounding acupuncture over the last several years as people look towards more alternative treatments for their health issues.
There is also a great deal of research that has been done in this area to suggest that acupuncture might be able to assist in helping people to find remedy for a variety of their health issues.
Aside from troops turning to it to help with their PTSD it's also been suggested that acupuncture might help with the opioid epidemic that is alleged to be taking place in many areas around the US. The alternative medicine market is one that has grown into a $34+ billion industry and isn't likely to slow down soon.
Troops who turn to the acupuncture for help with their PTSD claim that it works for them and that it's drastically boosted their quality of living. And acupuncture isn't the only option that people are looking to for some help. Another, which might be considered quite a bit more invasive, involves a brain implant that will help to regulate your mood.
The plan is to create a brain implant that is going to be able to use electric pulses to alter neural activity. It's a project that involves research teams that have been funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Researchers note that there are some negative side effects seen from such an implant however, and they are things like speech disturbance, increased aggression, depression, hypomania, memory impairment, and even suicide.
Though researchers have previously and repeatedly suggested that acupuncture could be greatly beneficial in helping many people to find a better quality of life, they insist that more research is still needed in this area.
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