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Interactive Guided Imagery Shows Promise for Reducing Obesity & Hypercortisolism |
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Sunday, 02 August 2009 |
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Researchers from the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles conducted a 4-week pilot study to determine whether Interactive Guided Imagery could be effective for stress reduction (and therefore reduce the metabolic disease risk associated with obesity and hypercortisolism) in overweight Latino adolescents. |
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Brief Yoga Program Benefits Cholesterol, Triglicerides |
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Sunday, 01 February 2009 |
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Researchers from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi examined the short-term impact of a brief yoga intervention on some of the biochemical risk indicators for cardiovascular disease and diabetes mellitus.
Ninety-eight subjects (67 male, 31 female), ages 20-74, with hypertension, coronary artery disease, diabetes mellitus, and a variety of other illnesses, participated in a lifestyle training program that consisted of yoga asanas (postures), pranayama (breathing exercises), relaxation techniques, group support, individualized advice, lectures and films on the philosophy of yoga and the place of yoga in daily life, meditation, stress management, nutrition, and knowledge about their disease. |
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Anorexic Adult Daughter with PTSD from Childhood Sexual Abuse Avoids Therapy… |
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Sunday, 11 January 2009 |
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Question:
I have a daughter who was sexually abused by her brother when she was 6. She is 24 now and several years ago she finally remembered some of the horrible events. She is anorexic due to the abuse. She refuses to go to therapy because she doesn't want to tell her story. Any CD that can help these issues or help her to get to a therapist?
Maddie |
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Biofeedback-assisted relaxation in type 2 diabetes. |
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Monday, 02 January 2006 |
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Once again a pilot study shows that self-regulation techniques - this time biofeedback and relaxation - are effective at reducing blood glucose levels and HbA1c in people with Type 2 Diabetes.. |
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Current status of mind-body interventions for vascular complications of diabetes. |
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Monday, 20 December 2004 |
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Reviewers from the University of Virginia conclude that thermal biofeedback can improve peripheral circulation, pain, neuropathy, ulcer healing, ambulatory activity, and quality of life in people with diabetes mellitus with impaired blood flow to the limbs.. |
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Guided imagery helps elderly patients to remember to take their medications. |
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Monday, 28 June 2004 |
A new study from the National Institute on Aging finds that guided imagery helps elderly patients to remember to take their medicine. Researchers Linda Liu, Ph.D., of the University of Michigan, and Denise Park, Ph.D., of the University of Illinois
found that older adults who spent a few minutes imagining and picturing
how they would test their blood sugar were 50 percent more likely to
actually do these tests on a regular basis than those who used other
memory techniques requiring far more conscious effort.
Thirty-one non-diabetic elderly volunteers were taught to do home blood
glucose tests. The participants, ages 60 to 81, were randomly assigned
to one of three groups and told to monitor their blood sugar levels
four specific times daily. They were not allowed to use timers, alarms
or other devices. |
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The effects of biofeedback-assisted relaxation on people with Type I, insulin-dependent diabetes. |
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Friday, 15 August 2003 |
Angela McGrady at The Medical College of Ohio studied the
effects of biofeedback-assisted relaxation on a small sample of people
with Type I, insulin-dependent diabetes, and found the intervention
extremely promising. Significantly more members of the imagery group
reduced their blood glucose by 10% after one month, and some decreased
insulin intake. Anxiety and especially depression appeared to interfere
with a positive outcome. (As reported in Alternative Health practitioner: The Journal of Complementary and Natural Care, Vol 3, no 3, Fall/Winter 1997.)
Citation:
As reported in Alternative Health practitioner: The Journal of
Complementary and Natural Care, Vol 3, no 3, Fall/Winter 1997. |
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Increasing diabetic self-care through guided imagery. |
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Friday, 15 August 2003 |
People have suspected for years that guided imagery is an ideal
intervention for people with diabetes. Because it lowers stress and
people with Type II Diabetes (also known as Adult Onset Diabetes) are
famously responsive to stress, it seems pretty obvious. But not a whole
lot of hard-core study has been done on the subject.
Harriet Conley Wichowski & Sylvia M. Kubsch have made a good start at studying imagery and diabetes. At the Professional Program in Nursing at the University
of Wisconsin-Green Bay,
they did a a small case study on the impact of guided imagery in
helping diabetic patients to adhere to a rigorous behavioral regimen.
Their article in Complementary Therapy Nurse Midwifery
[1999 Dec: 5(6):159-63] reports that, with several cases, a guided
imagery script used by health care practitioners was effective in
improving adherence to blood testing, exercise, weight management and
restrictive diet.
Citation: Wichowski HC, Kubsch SM. Increasing
diabetic self-care through guided imagery. Complement Ther Nurs
Midwifery. 1999 Dec;5(6):159-63. |
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Stress management improves long-term glycemic control in type 2 diabetes. |
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Friday, 15 August 2003 |
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Stress management improves long-term glycemic control in type 2 diabetes. |
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