Navy creates iPad app for managing stress and fending off #PTSD @wired @realwarriors

Navy Creates iPad App for Managing Stress and Fending off PTSD

navy.mil 07 Mar '13, 7am

Navy creates iPad app for managing stress and fending off #PTSD @wired @realwarriors

ARLINGTON, Va. (NNS) -- The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is co-funding an affordable, hi-tech, solution for managing stress that could help prevent post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), helping warfighters and potentially saving billions of dollars in associated medical costs, officials announced March 6. ONR, in conjunction with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is sponsoring development of the Stress Resilience Training System (SRTS), an iPad app training program that teaches Sailors and Marines to understand their stress responses and manage them by learning biofeedback techniques that work for their individual needs. The system will undergo field testing at the Naval Center for Combat and Operational Stress Control (NCCOSC) in San Diego in April. Lessening the impact of PTSD to warfighters, the military and the nation is crucial. According to a February...

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