My understanding of PTSD, in particular that caused by war time service or severe sexual assault, never goes away. PTSD is also very misunderstood by the general public. For many combat veterans their whole personality changes into a defensive roll, almost to the point of paranoia. Trust in others is severely eroded which may cause reclusiveness or in a few cases violent outbreaks.
My point is exercise may help, but there is no cure for PTSD. It’s there for life.
Junk research.
Of course action oriented exercise reduces fear.
PTSD is a topic I have conducted research for many years. Of the 11 medically approved treatments, only one, psychotherapy, actually resolves the root cause. The other ten treatment methodologies only block the symptoms.
The reason for this is that the trauma memory is not stored in the brain. While psychotherapy involves owning the traumatic memory and reprogramming the attached perception, all the rest are neural blocking techniques. This includes stellate ganglion injections, pharmacology, EMDR and Trans Magnetic Brain Stimulation.
At a psychiatric conference I attended on PTSD research, Dr. Skip Rizzo presented his research using Virtual Reality in conjunction with psychotherapy. He had great success.
Walter Reed Hospital tried using Virtual Reality and found it exacerbated the trauma as they used it incorrectly as Repeated Exposure Desensitization Treatment and found it merely reinforced the severity of the trauma.
The BDNF change in the hippocampus found in this research is merely a result of distraction in the focus within the thalamus that does priority sorting of neural input.