Dr. Chris Frueh & Jadie Miller Team Up
In 2020 Dr. Chris Frueh & Jadie Miller partner to frame Firefighter Syndrome.
In 2018 Jadie experienced an injury specific to the unique challenges of firefighting that no rookie is ready for, not taught how to prepare for, nor given the tools to deal. In 2020 she teamed with Dr. Chris Frueh to investigate, develop and co-author a framework that would more accurately explain her injury. A framework proposed as 'Firefighter Syndrome’, born from Dr. Frueh and his teams incredible work with ‘Operator Syndrome’. Firefighter Syndrome is specific to the challenges of firefighting, while Operator Syndrome remains specific to the challenges that military special operators face.
Together with PYROC, Dr.Frueh and Jadie Miller aim to push the boundaries of how we care for and optimize performance of those impacted.
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I Have Something But It's Not PTSD: Jadie's Story
When Miller wakes up, it’s more than six months later. She finds herself hiding away in a back office of HQ. Masking her injury through a timely secondment, she’s trying to overcome the fear of what her brothers may think of her. Craving to understand what happened, Miller faces the question: Is this PTSD?
Firefighter Syndrome: A Proposed Whole Systems Framework
Modern medicine and society have placed too much emphasis on PTSD, but that is only a small part of a much larger problem.