Home Health & Hospice Week

Fall-induced PTSD can hinder ADLs.Are you noticing patients who have experienced falls and are having a hard time recovering for no discernible clinical reason? You should be ready to get psychological help for patients who are re-ceiving therapy for traumatic orthopedic injuries.Post traumatic stress disorder can create a sense of fear in elderly patients recovering from hip fractures. That's the conclusion of a new review article by Brown University researchers who found evidence linking post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to injuries caused by "high-velocity trauma, such as motor vehicle accidents and falls from height," according to physician Daniel Aaron with Brown's Department of Orthopedics.Those aren't the only accidents to trigger the condition-affecting disorder, though. "Generally, higher-energy mechanisms are most commonly associated with PTSD, but no specific type of fracture or injury has been identified," Aaron noted in a release on the article published in the Journal of the American Academy [...]