Less than 20 years ago, Vince Felitti, MD, and Rob Anda, MD, published the results of research that showed proof of a strong relationship between painful things that can happen in childhood – adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs - and health as an adult.
This evidence of long term effects on health was striking and the most compelling argument for preventing child abuse since another physician, Henry Kempe, MD, coined the phrase “battered child syndrome” in 1964. But Felitti’s work was different -- while Kempe was showing doctors how to diagnose the most serious types of abuse from a child’s physical symptoms, Felitti was telling us that experiences that seem to leave no physical scars actually do.
[For more of this story, written by Janet Rosenzweig, go to http://www.philly.com/philly/b...#tVfQ7e8vUqek8d57.99]
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