Whether or not the Stellate Ganglion Block will help is less dependant on the name of your condition than your response to the PCL test. A positive test score for a civilian is 25 and a positive for a military person is 35. The Stellate Ganglion Block is best described as a treatment for a Stress Injury. The injury may be due to the stress of severe pain, chronic emo-tional trauma, one traumatic event or even multiple events. Regardless of the cause of a person’s stress injury, the bottom line is that the autonomic nervous system has been over-whelmed beyond it’s ability to recover to any kind of a normal state.

In a Stress Injury the sympatheticnenrous system is inappropriately stuck in a fight or flight response. This Stress Injury is an injury, not a disease or disorder. Like most injuries there is a way to recover from it.Most patients appear to have long lasting results with just one treatlnent, while others may require additional re-boots separated by at least three months. If a person actively remains in high stress situations, they may be more likely to benefit from repeat re-boots or Stellate Ganglion Blocks.