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Curious about the effectiveness of mind-body medicine? Here you’ll find news and recent research into mind-body-spirit modalities, such as reiki, mindfulness and meditation.
Integrative therapies lessen postsurgical anxiety and pain.
JAMA February 14, 2023, volume 329 number 6 JAMA.com
There are several research articles addressing integrative therapies with a reduction in anxiety as well as paying the post surgically for anyone who is experiencing any type of anxiety prior to a surgical procedure mindfulness-based stress reduction has a great effect on reducing not only depression related to illness but anxiety and pain.
Finding faith through listening
JAMA August 1, 2023 volume 330, number five JAMA.com
The role of God for those of faith related to medical illnesses is something in the hospitals they call “listening presence.” We all individually make sense of where we are in the world in her own way. That’s religion. Part of the job of the physicians is to help patients make sense of how their illness fits in their world.
Meditation equal to first-line medication for anxiety.
JAMA psychiatry (2022 Nov 9, doi 10. 1001\jamapsychiatry. 2022. 3679)
Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is as effective at reducing anxiety as the antidepressant Lexapro a first-line pharmaceutical treatment new research shows. I would encourage clinicians to list meditation training as one is the possible treatment options for patients who are diagnosed with anxiety disorders. According to Dr. Brown he states “I’m encouraged by the fact studies like these are now being conducted and there is more evidence that supports these mindfulness-based interventions so they can start to make their way into the standard of care treatment modalities.”
JAMA’s eye. 2023; 80 (one): 13 – 21.doi:10.1001
There were 430 individuals in this trial from three urban academic medical centers in the United States in 208 completed the trial. The results from this randomized clinical trial comparing a standardized evidence-based mindfulness-based intervention with psychopharmacology for the treatment of anxiety disorders found that MBS are was equal to Lexapro.