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Personalised medicine: a healing application within comorbid PTSD and mTBI military patient sample with a particular focus on special operators
  1. Nicole E Moret1 and
  2. L D Bennion2
  1. 1Graduate School of Nursing, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
  2. 2Medical Psychology, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr Nicole E Moret, Graduate School of Nursing, Uniformed Services University, Alexandria, MD 20814, USA; nicole.moret{at}usuhs.edu

Abstract

Personalised medicine is replacing prototypical medical care. Personalised medicine focuses on enhancing patients’ functioning and preventing future negative impacts of both medical disease and psychological disorders, and unfolds uniquely for each individual. The military special forces community is a group at higher risk for physical trauma, for example, traumatic brain injuries, as well as psychosocial stressors and traumas associated with combat, high operational tempos and sleep deprivation. From a system’s cost–benefit perspective and resonating with community norms of resiliency, personalised medicine offers unique innovative treatments for special operators. In this article, we outline the successful applications of personalised medicine via the multidisciplinary treatment of special operators with comorbid conditions (primarily mild traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder).

  • MENTAL HEALTH
  • Adult neurology
  • COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE

https://doi.org/10.1136/military-2023-002356

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    • Contributors The authors confirm contribution to the manuscript. Both authors reviewed and approved the final version of the manuscript.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

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    • Author note The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policies or positions of the US Department of Defense, the US Department of the Navy, Army, or Air Force, the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, the US Government, or other associated federal / governmental agencies.