A randomized controlled trial of yoga vs nonaerobic exercise for veterans with PTSD: Understanding efficacy, mechanisms of change, and mode of delivery.

Background And Objectives: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a chronic, disabling, and prevalent mental health disorder among Veterans. Despite the availability of empirically supported psychotherapies, many Veterans remain symptomatic after treatment and/or prefer to seek complementary and integrative health approaches, including yoga, to manage PTSD. The randomized controlled trial (RCT) described herein will evaluate the efficacy of a manualized yoga program as compared to nonaerobic exercise in reducing PTSD severity among Veterans.

A Virtual Reality Intervention for the Treatment of Phantom Limb Pain: Development and Feasibility Results.

Objective: To describe the development of a virtual reality (VR) treatment for phantom limb pain (PLP) and phantom sensations and provide feasibility data from testing the treatment in a population of veterans.

Design & Subjects: Fourteen participants completed a baseline visit evaluating their amputation, PLP, and phantom sensations. Subsequently, participants completed a VR treatment modeled after mirror therapy for PLP, navigating in a VR environment with a bicycle pedaler and motion sensor to pair their cadence to a VR avatar.