Purpose An estimated 1.6 million U.S. adults use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) for insomnia. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine has graded relaxation training as a “Standard” treatment for insomnia. However, national patterns of CAM and relaxation techniques by American adults with insomnia are not well-established. In this context, we sought to identify overall rates of CAM ...

OBJECTIVE To see whether stress could be alleviated in patients being treated for early breast cancer. DESIGN Controlled randomised trial lasting six weeks. SETTING Outpatient radiotherapy department in a teaching hospital. PATIENTS One hundred fifty four women with breast cancer stage I or II after first session of six week course of radiotherapy, of whom 15 dropped out before end of stu...

BACKGROUND Exercise training is now an accepted component of the therapeutic regimen in patients with heart failure and underlying ischemia, but few data are available on the effects of training in patients with nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy. METHODS Twenty-four patients (mean age 55 +/- 9 years, mean ejection fraction 26.6% +/- 10%) were randomized to an exercise (n = 12) or a control (...

UNLABELLED This study investigated the effects of brief mindfulness meditation training on ratings of painful electrical stimulation. In Experiment 1, we used a 3-day (20 min/d) mindfulness meditation intervention and measured pain ratings before and after the intervention. Participants' numerical ratings of pain to "low" and "high" electrical stimulation significantly decreased after meditatio...

MODERATORS OF THE EFFECTS OF ANGER AWARENESS AND EXPRESSIONTRAINING AND RELAXATION TRAINING TO IMPROVE CHORNIC HEADACHESYMPTOMSbyELYSE R. SKLARAugust 2012Advisor: Dr. Mark A. LumleyMajor: Psychology (Clinical)Degree: Master of ArtsChronic headache (HA), a common condition among young adults, is exacerbated bystress. Arousal reducing techniques, such a...

extract  this article is about sports training that reduce pain after cesarean delivery. this method not only for women but also for other women and men who have abdominal surgery is beneficial. this method is based on relaxation , facilitate deep breathing and after surgery coughing. after that, some advices is given to patients for pain relief.   exercises to relax the muscles:   naturally af...

BACKGROUND Endothelium-dependent modulation of coronary tone is impaired in the collateral-dependent coronary microcirculation. We used a porcine model of chronic coronary occlusion and collateral development to evaluate the hypothesis that exercise training enhances endothelium-mediated relaxation and increases endothelial nitric oxide synthase (ecNOS) mRNA levels of collateral-dependent micro...

More than 5 million deaths a year are attributable to tobacco smoking, but attempts to help people either quit or reduce their smoking often fail, perhaps in part because the intention to quit activates brain networks related to craving. We recruited participants interested in general stress reduction and randomly assigned them to meditation training or a relaxation training control. Among smok...

Many studies have reported meditation training has beneficial effects on brain structure and function. However, very little is known about meditation-induced changes in brain complex networks. We used network analysis of electroencephalography theta activity data at rest before and after 1-week of integrative body-mind training (IBMT) and relaxation training. The results demonstrated the IBMT g...