Yoga, deep breathing used to address soldiers' post-traumatic stress

Posted on: Saturday, August 18, 2012

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Rich Low dreamed of Iraq long after he returned home from the war.

The memories haunted him when he was awake, too. About six months after his deployment, he was driving at night when a sudden burst of lightning snapped him back to Baghdad and the bomb that exploded near him during a thunderstorm.

Low's pulse raced as adrenaline surged through his body even though he was driving on a road far from any war zone.

He didn't know post-traumatic stress was affecting him. Not until he took part in a University of Wisconsin-Madison study that taught Iraq and Afghanistan veterans yoga, meditation and breathing techniques to cope with PTSD.

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