What post-traumatic stress symptoms benefit from treatment with Stellate Ganglion Block (SGB)?
SGB improves many symptoms associated with PTSD/PTSI and anxiety but is particularly helpful for hyperarousal symptoms which can present as increased irritability, angry outbursts, poor sleep and poor concentration.
Following SGB, many report feeling more calm in their bodies and are able to respond deliberately to stressors rather than feeling captive to uncontrollable, immediate anger, fear, or anxiety and the physiologic effects associated with these responses, such as racing heart, muscle tension, chest pressure, etc.