Article Contributed on: 6/30/2009 4:13:19 PM
Community Outreach Program Brings Independence to our Veterans as we Celebrate Independence Day 2009
A community outreach program targeting Veterans suffering from the physical symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress will be launched this Independence Day by Wellness Today, a locally owned and operated business.
This outreach program will provide treatment and educational services to local Veterans facing the physiological challenges of recovery from war related Post Traumatic Stress free through the month of July, 2009.
Many wartime wounds are clearly visible, however some of the deepest scars of war are hidden inside. Thousands of our countrymen and women have suffered the injury of trauma due to their experiences during wartime.
When a human being is subjected to trauma, defined by Dr. Robert Scaer, M.D., as: "any negative life occurrence in a position of relative helplessness," physiological patterns occur immediately. These physical patterns are mechanisms of survival; fight, flight and freeze, and are automatic reactions to a life threatening situation.
For thousands of our Veterans returning home, these fight, flight and freeze physiological reactions remain engaged! This often leads to a gambit of physical and psychological dysfunctions that can become debilitating, making re-engagement with their families and community difficult to do in a healthful manner.
These physical patterns of protection provide the key to quickly and efficiently unlocking the body from the protective cycles that are instinctually "turned on" during times of sustained stress, especially life threatening stress.
Local physical therapists and experts in treating the physical components of Post Traumatic Stress, Scott Musgrave and Ernie Quinlisk, are passionate about offering their treatment and educational services free to local Veterans during the month of July. Through corporate and community support, this program has the potential to run indefinitely.
Musgrave and Quinlisk operate two clinical locations in the Denver metro area, and will dedicate one afternoon a week to their Wellness for Veterans community outreach program.
"This program is very exciting for us," report Quinlisk and Musgrave, "as we feel a duty to extend a helping hand to those individuals that sacrificed in helping protect the very freedom that Independence Day celebrates."
Our approach is different. Through cutting edge information and skilled, artful application, we have developed a program to address the dramatic and far reaching negative effects of trauma through a physiological based approach!
By addressing trauma from a physiological perspective, we have found that many people can extinguish the multitude of traumatic cycles stored within their nervous systems without having to go through the layers sometimes associated with reliving each detail of their traumatic experiences.
Once the physiological reactions that began with the original trauma are extinguished, the nervous system and the body can resume balance. This breakthrough understanding of how the brain automatically reacts to traumatic experiences has led to the development of a remarkable new treatment process.
A treatment process that can help restore many lives back to normalcy and provide level ground and even footing for our soldiers transitioning back into civilian life.
Our mission is to provide cutting edge treatment and educational services to American Veterans, enabling them to resolve physiological reactions to trauma and return to living happy, healthy and enriched lives.
We think they deserve nothing less for their sacrifices on our behalf.
For more information about how you can get involved with this landmark community outreach project, please contact Scott Musgrave, MSPT at 303.932.1101 or
www.wellnessandperformance.com or Ernie Quinlisk, PT at 720.289.8015 or
www.quinliskwp.com.
The following websites are currently being constructed for the July Launch of the Wellness for Veterans community outreach program:
www.WellnessToday.ME and
www.WellnessforVeterans.com.