Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

AMA/FDA Approved Treatment Procedures With Standard Healthcare Insurance Average price to treat one person is $20,000 per year Treatment can go on indefinitely $400,000+ spent over a 20 year period not including medical care cost increases Job loss, time off work and productivity losses add additional cost from loss of direct income

HealthWalk PTSD Wellness Package $7,200 plus the cost of supplements over the first few months for lifelong results $600-$1,200 per year for supplementation to enhance recovery and encourage brain neurotransmitter healing Over 20 year period, $12,000-$24,000 for supplementation Annual checkup & maintenance depending on the case, from $1,000- $1,750 per year Estimated total cost for 20 subsequent years at $24,000 - $59,000 for supplementation and annual maintenance visits

HealthWalk’s PTSD Program empowers people suffering from PTSD to regain resilience and enthusiasm for life. For a one-time investment into the health and well being of each PTSD afflicted person, we get back an optimally functioning veteran/citizen. The non-recurring cost per person is $7,200.

This is a savings of approximately $12,800 in the first year. Since the HealthWalk program restores resilience within one year the long term cost savings are tremendous. A $20,000 or higher a year price tag can accrue indefinitely if the sufferer symptoms do not diminish or in fact increases. For military personnel their individual costs are primarily covered but the social and economic burden on their family and a tax paying society is disheartening.

HealthWalk’s focus on PTSD uses clinically proven and leading edge technologies so that a clear analysis of all aspects of the individual can be realized and effective support and resolution can be implemented, reducing recovery time and increasing the effectiveness over any previously known protocol or technology.

“The economic cost of the PTSD and depression cases -- including medical care, forgone productivity and lost lives through suicide -- is estimated at $4 billion to $6 billion over two years. Meanwhile, the cost incurred by traumatic brain injury, based on all cases diagnosed through June 2007, is estimated at $600 million to $900 million.¹”

According to data from the Sidran Institute:

• An estimated 70 percent of adults in the United States have experienced a traumatic event at least once in their lives and up to 20 percent of these people go on to develop posttraumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.
• An estimated 5 percent of Americans—more than 13 million people—have PTSD at any given time.
• Approximately 8 percent of all adults—1 of 13 people in this country—will develop PTSD during their lifetime.
• An estimated 1 out of 10 women will get PTSD at some time in their lives. Women are about twice as likely as men to develop PTSD.

The Washington Post reported back in 2005: “In the past five years, the number of veterans receiving compensation for the disorder commonly called PTSD has grown nearly seven times as fast as the number receiving benefits for disabilities in general, according to a report this year by the inspector general of the Department of Veterans Affairs. A total of 215,871 veterans received PTSD benefit payments last year at a cost of $4.3 billion, up from $1.7 billion in 1999 -- a jump of more than 150 percent.

If you do the math it costs currently almost $20,000 per year to treat a combat veteran for PTSD per year. In many cases the symptoms may take years if ever, to reverse.

For civilians with PTSD, oftentimes the condition is left undiagnosed or treated until a crisis hits and the loss in productivity, personal physical, mental and emotional health and societal health can be dramatic and extremely costly.

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1. “Combat Stress May Cost U.S. Up to $6 Billion,” By Ann Scott Tyson, Washington Post, Friday, April 18, 2008; Page A18