{"id":44640,"date":"2014-06-17T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/local_paper_iraq_veteran_with_ptsd_finds_healing_in_exercise\/"},"modified":"2014-06-17T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T18:00:00","slug":"local_paper_iraq_veteran_with_ptsd_finds_healing_in_exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44640","title":{"rendered":"(Local Paper) Iraq veteran with PTSD finds healing in exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Yevgeniy Gelfand, a psychiatrist at Trident, knows Urena from working with him in the ER and says a growing body of evidence is showing that exercise can be a valuable tool in battling PTSD, which he describes as &#8220;complex disorder&#8221; that researchers are still learning about.<\/p>\n<p>Gelfand says drugs often have been the first and foremost treatment for it and have generally proven not to work too well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the West, everyone wants a pill. That&#8217;s how we&#8217;re conditioned,&#8221; says Gelfand. &#8220;I think exercise is often overlooked (as a therapy).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Besides endorphins, Gelfand says exercise provides a &#8220;sense of well-being&#8221; through improved sleep, providing a sense of control, and giving people goals and a sense of accomplishment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20140617\/PC1211\/140619439\/1177\/iraq-veteran-with-ptsd-finds-healing-in-exercise\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Yevgeniy Gelfand, a psychiatrist at Trident, knows Urena from working with him in the ER and says a growing body of evidence is showing that exercise can be a valuable tool in battling PTSD, which he describes as &#8220;complex<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44640\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,175,104,141,129,128,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-anthropology","category-health-medicine","category-iraq-war","category-psychology","category-sports","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}