Improving Clinical Recovery Through Diagnosis of New and Latent Injury
Many so-called "scientific" claims are often publicly advertised these days on mass media, guaranteeing specific results for all patients. But health guarantees are rarely, if ever valid. We do not insult the public with these types of unsubstantiated claims.
Clinical care, whether for mental health disorders or traumatic stress injuries, must be responsive to the presentation and needs of each individual. This varies widely from person to person. Additionally, clinical treatment is a collaborative relationship. Success depends upon many factors which are not under the care provider’s control. These include factors such as the willing participation of the patient in the plan of care, faithfulness in attending therapy sessions, compliance with diet and medication, and the like.
There is, however, one factor which we believe to be true and scientifically supported: traumatic stress injuries and disorders exert an enormous adverse burden of morbidity – and sometimes mortality – upon patients’ overall conditions of illness. Traumatic stress injuries and disorders are, in fact, physical illnesses which cause other illnesses. If a patient is suffering from an already-diagnosed physical illness, but that patient is unknowingly suffering from a concurrent traumatic stress injury or stress disorder, the patient may be at significant additional, UNSEEN AND UNEVALUATED RISK caused by the comorbid traumatic stress injury.
Patients cannot be adequately treated if only part of their illness is known and diagnosed. Even if part of a patient’s illness is known and received proper treatment, the other unseen and undiagnosed portion of the patient’s condition – e.g., the traumatic stress injury – may spell the patient’s ultimate downfall.
At MediMental Care, we believe patients with a latent, undiagnosed, and untreated traumatic stress injury or disorder will better their chances for clinical improvement or recovery if the latent traumatic stress injury or disorder is discovered, evaluated and addressed with compassionate care and clinical expertise.
MANY PATIENTS ARE SHOCKED TO LEARN THAT TRAUMATIC STRESS INJURIES AND DISORDERS MAY ACTUALLY INCITE OR SERIOUSLY EXACERBATE THE FOLLOWING MEDICAL CONDITIONS:
Cardiac Arrhythmia
Morbid Obesity
Non-healing Wounds
Severe Cognitive Damage
Hypercholesterolemia
Pulmonary Hypertension
Cardiovascular Disease
Severe Hypertension
Obstructive sleep apnea
Hyperlipidemia
Hypoxemia
Cardiovascular Incident (stroke)
Ocular Damage
Insulin Resistance/Diabetes
Structural & Organic Brain Damage
Clinical Depression
Arthritic & Inflammatory Diseases
Chronic Pain
Traumatic Stress Injury (TSI) dysregulates the brain and central nervous system, and may affect the function of virtually all systems of the body.
- The effect of TSI varies among individuals, but can pose severe or even catastrophic risks in medical, social, relational and occupational terms. In addition to lost physical and cognitive function, the costs of future, untreated TSIs can range from tens of thousands of dollars to a million dollars or more. We work with patients to determine the most efficient and least expensive modalities of illness care and management.
- MediMental Care assesses and detects previously undiscovered TSI, and educates our patients regarding the present and future consequences of these conditions. Then, we provide cutting edge treatment to foster improved function.
- In some cases, patients’ undiagnosed and untreated TSIs have already become chronic before they present to us for care. Even in those cases, MediMental Care is able and willing to create highly specialized plans of illness management for the life course.