Showing papers in "Complementary Therapies in Medicine in 2013"

TL;DR: Overall, current findings increasingly support yoga and mindfulness as promising complementary therapies for treating and preventing addictive behaviors.

TL;DR: The more they practiced yoga, whether in years or in amount of class or home practice, the higher their odds of believing yoga improved their health, and beliefs did not differ substantially according to race or gender.

TL;DR: Development of a pan-European definition of CAM use and CAM therapies are required to achieve surveys comparable between European countries, and more research investigating the efficacy and potential adverse effects of CAM therapies is needed because of increasing CAM use by children in Europe.

TL;DR: What is currently known about the role of mindfulness based interventions when used alone, or in combination with, other traditional approaches in the treatment of obesity and eating disorders is described.

TL;DR: Tai chi Qigong has sustaining effects in improving the physiological health and is a useful and appropriate exercise for COPD patients.

TL;DR: The results support the assumption that patients' perceptions of treatment benefits measured by VAS in these trials might be comparable to others in conventional therapies, and that context factors such as patient characteristics and specific treatment conditions might play an important role.

TL;DR: An affirmation can be made that meditation can be used as a non-invasive intervention treatment for improving fatigue, anxiety, quality of life, and emotional faculties of women with breast cancer.

TL;DR: During invasive medical procedures, MI significantly decreases stress hormone levels, physiological parameters, acute procedural pain and anxiety.

TL;DR: This systematic review found moderate evidence for short-term improvement of pain, physical function and stiffness in patients with osteoarthritis of the knee practicing Tai Chi.

TL;DR: Clinical care and the physician-patient relation would benefit from an enhanced understanding of CAM and a greater candidness towards the parental needs.

TL;DR: This review has identified significant gaps in the evidence base for the effectiveness of CAM on QOL in cancer survivors and further work in this field needs to adopt more rigorous methodology to help support cancer survivors to actively embrace self-management and effective CAMs.

TL;DR: An up to date and comprehensive report on the antidiabetic activity of jambolan is summarized and the mode of action of some of the parts and active principles is included.

TL;DR: It is suggested that yoga may have ancillary benefits in terms of improved physical function, enhanced mental/emotional state, enriched sleep quality, and improved lifestyle choices, and may be useful as a health promotion strategy in the prevention and management of chronic disease.

TL;DR: Despite limited data, it seems that probiotic bacteria as live microorganisms could be safely administered even in the setting of neutropenia, especially in cancer patients treated with chemotherapy.

TL;DR: This article summarizes six lessons that can be learned from over a half century of scientific research on the placebo effect that it is meaningless to ask what the magnitude of the placeboeffect is, it is easy to be fooled by regression artifacts, and the outcomes of active treatments can be enhanced by attention to placebo components.

TL;DR: The quality of evidence for the efficacy of mind-body therapies for improving post-surgical outcomes is limited and recommendations have been made for future RCTs.

TL;DR: Caper fruit extract may be a safe anti- hyperglycemic and anti-hypertriglyceridemic agent for type 2 diabetic patients, and no liver, kidney and other side effects were observed in these two groups.

TL;DR: It seems that needle rotation and acupuncture sensation play an important role in verifying the effect of acupuncture, and there is a significant correlation between acupuncture needling sensation and increase in pressure pain threshold.

TL;DR: This study highlighted the importance of Benson's relaxation technique in improvement of the sleep quality of the patients on hemodialysis and recommended educational sessions are recommended to be planned on this cost effective and easy to use relaxation technique to improve he modialysis patients' sleep quality.

TL;DR: S. officinalis leaves may be safe and have anti-hyperglycemic and lipid profile improving effects in hyperlipidemic type 2 diabetic patients and did not have any significant effects on the other parameters compared to the placebo group at endpoint.

TL;DR: The CAM workforce across five developed countries is described to better inform health workforce and health services planning, and perchance, inform debate on future public health and primary care policy.

TL;DR: Findings demonstrate that the Lf/IgF combination significantly decreased the incidence of colds and the cumulative number of cold-related symptoms over placebo.

TL;DR: The co-supplemented hemp seed and evening primrose oils with Hot-nature diet have beneficial effects in improving of clinical score in RRMS patients which were confirmed by immunological findings.

TL;DR: Both aromatherapy massage and massage were effective in reducing psychological symptoms, but, the effect of aromather therapy massage was higher than massage.

TL;DR: The study demonstrated that both Turkish classical music and resting alone have positive effects on blood pressure in patients with hypertension.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the BSQ is a valid and reliable instrument for evaluating BS and BS may partially cause a decrease in cardiovascular autonomic function.

TL;DR: The LQP is a non-pharmacological and cost-effective means to help adolescents mitigate stresses in their everyday life and suggests lower levels of stress after completion of the program.

TL;DR: The data presented here indicate that the majority of the responding German paediatric oncologists is open towards continuing medical education on CAM, not least in the interest of becoming more competent to advise their patients.

TL;DR: Findings suggest that, while walking in woodland becomes a physical stressor, such activity may also bring about feeling uplifted.

TL;DR: This double blind randomised placebo controlled study assessing propolis (bee glue) efficacy for chemotherapy-induced severe OM treatment concluded that propolis cannot be recommended for severe OMtreatment.