{"id":246,"date":"2007-06-03T18:15:17","date_gmt":"2007-06-03T17:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resource.bmj.com\/bmj\/2007\/06\/03\/bmj-2-jun-2007-vol-334\/"},"modified":"2007-06-03T18:15:17","modified_gmt":"2007-06-03T17:15:17","slug":"bmj-2-jun-2007-vol-334","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2007\/06\/03\/bmj-2-jun-2007-vol-334\/","title":{"rendered":"BMJ  2 Jun 2007  Vol 334"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, blessed are the peacemakers, we must say of Martin McGuinness and Ian Paisley, even if they took their time about it. In the meantime, a lot of people in Northern Ireland have suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of terrorism and civil disorder.<!--more--> One of them comes to see me almost every week, in the middle of sleepiest England. He is having cognitive therapy, and it is helping, as it did in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/334\/7604\/1147\">this randomised trial<\/a>, but he is still frequently in tears. There are experiences from which people do not heal, which are taking place all over the world even as you read this.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, the mud and the panting, the opportunity for close contact with large sweaty Welshmen, the bath-house jollities, the constant risk of head injury or paraplegia; I don\u2019t know how I have managed to resist the delights of rugby union football all my adult life. Apparently the New Zealanders have devised a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/334\/7604\/1150\">system for preventing injuries called RugbySmart<\/a>, and using the infallible methodology called before-and-after, this study concludes that it works. I\u2019m not quite sure, however, why it is flagged up on the front cover of the BMJ rather than appearing in a supplement of the <em>Antipodean Journal of Sports Studies.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, blessed are the peacemakers, we must say of Martin McGuinness and Ian Paisley, even if they took their time about it. In the meantime, a lot of people in Northern Ireland have suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of terrorism and civil disorder. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2007\/06\/03\/bmj-2-jun-2007-vol-334\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-richard-lehmans-weekly-review-of-medical-journals"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2017\/02\/richard-lehman.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}