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PTSD & Trauma

Six Sessions of Emotional Freedom Techniques Remediate One Veteran's Combat-Related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Minewiser, L. · Medical Acupuncture · 2017

Case series 👥 1 participants Preliminary ✓ Source-checked 📍 United States
In plain English. One Marine veteran's PTSD score dropped from a high, clearly clinical level to well below the clinical threshold after six sessions of tapping, and kept improving over six months. As a single case drawn from a larger replication study, it's an illustrative example rather than independent proof.

What they found

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One Marine veteran's PTSD score dropped from a high, clearly clinical level to well below the clinical threshold after six sessions of tapping, and kept…

The patient's PTSD score dropped from a high clinical score of 60 before treatment to 40 after 6 sessions and to a clinical score of 22 at 6 months follow-up, along with reduced insomnia and pain.

How the study worked

Who took part one young Marine Reservist who served in Iraq, part of the Veteran Stress Project replication study (n=1)
What they did This is a detailed report following a small number of individual cases through tapping.
Measured with PTSD clinical score, SA-45

The full record

DesignCase series
Participants1 people
Populationone young Marine Reservist who served in Iraq, part of the Veteran Stress Project replication study
Outcome measuresPTSD clinical score, SA-45
JournalMedical Acupuncture
Year2017
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
MethodEFT / Tapping
Publication typeCase report
Verification✓ Confirmed against the primary source

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Minewiser, L. (2017). Six Sessions of Emotional Freedom Techniques Remediate One Veteran's Combat-Related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Medical Acupuncture. https://doi.org/10.1089/acu.2017.1216

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THE TAPPING EVIDENCE BASE PTSD & Trauma 1 participants WHAT THEY FOUND The patient's PTSD score dropped from a highclinical score of 60 before treatment to 40after 6 sessions and to a… Case series · 1 participants Minewiser · 2017 · evidence.thetappingsolution.com