LETTER FROM
THE EDITOR
HUFFINGTON
01.13.13
Yoga
Warriors
N THIS WEEK’S issue,
David Wood writes
about a tool increasingly used to help
veterans confront the many challenges waiting for them when
they return home from war zones:
yoga. There’s a growing consensus
among military doctors, researchers, and veterans themselves, that
conventional treatments aren’t
always enough to help vets navigate the consequences of PTSD —
from unemployment and domestic violence to substance abuse,
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anxiety, and suicide. As Wood
puts it, “Once dismissed as mere
acrobatics with incense, yoga
has been found to help ease the
pain, stiffness, anger, night
terrors, memory lapses, anxiety
and depression that often afflict
wounded warriors.”
The embrace of yoga — especially among onetime skeptics in
“hard-core military circles” — is
a step forward in our efforts to
give veterans the care they need
and deserve. It’s also in line with
the latest research and thinking about the destructive force of
stress in our lives. The adrenaline-fueled hyper-vigilance that’s
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