Diabetes
Interactive Guided Imagery Shows Promise for Reducing Obesity & Hypercortisolism | Print |  E-mail
Sunday, 02 August 2009

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.

 
Brief Yoga Program Benefits Cholesterol, Triglicerides | Print |  E-mail
Sunday, 01 February 2009

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.

 
Anorexic Adult Daughter with PTSD from Childhood Sexual Abuse Avoids Therapy… | Print |  E-mail
Sunday, 11 January 2009

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

 
Biofeedback-assisted relaxation in type 2 diabetes. | Print |  E-mail
Monday, 02 January 2006
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..
 
Current status of mind-body interventions for vascular complications of diabetes. | Print |  E-mail
Monday, 20 December 2004
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..
 
Guided imagery helps elderly patients to remember to take their medications. | Print |  E-mail
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.
 
The effects of biofeedback-assisted relaxation on people with Type I, insulin-dependent diabetes. | Print |  E-mail
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.
 
Increasing diabetic self-care through guided imagery. | Print |  E-mail
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.
 
Stress management improves long-term glycemic control in type 2 diabetes. | Print |  E-mail
Friday, 15 August 2003
Stress management improves long-term glycemic control in type 2 diabetes.
 
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