Stress Relief

sillymoo

So I love to do yoga when im particularly stressed. Quite a bit of info out there linking it to stress relief. Eg.

Smith C. Hancock H. Blake-Mortimer J. Eckert K. A randomised comparative trial of yoga and relaxation to reduce stress and anxiety. [Comparative Study. Journal Article. Randomized Controlled Trial. Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't] Complementary Therapies in Medicine. 15(2):77-83, 2007 Jun.

Any other good ways of relieving stress out there?

tallaght01

I know nothing about the subject, and don't have online access to journals while I'm on hols.

But really glad to see other kinda "non mainstream" medical topics being discussed with an evidence base, whatever the quality of the evidence.

Good work sillymoo

sillymoo

tallaght01 wrote: »

Good work sillymoo

Aw shucks

madmik

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tallaght01

madmik wrote: »

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Thank you for your contribution, good sir :P

Latchy

Sex , best stress reliever of all , specialy recomended for couples

2Scoops

sillymoo wrote: »

Smith C. Hancock H. Blake-Mortimer J. Eckert K. A randomised comparative trial of yoga and relaxation to reduce stress and anxiety. [Comparative Study. Journal Article. Randomized Controlled Trial. Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't] Complementary Therapies in Medicine. 15(2):77-83, 2007 Jun.

How interesting. Neither Yoga nor PMR significantly affected stress or anxiety so they set it up as an efficacy study between the two and said they were equally effective. That is to say, not effective! :rolleyes:

tallaght01

2Scoops wrote: »

How interesting. Neither Yoga nor PMR significantly affected stress or anxiety so they set it up as an efficacy study between the two and said they were equally effective. That is to say, not effective! :rolleyes:

How did they they do that? I have no access to the paper.

2Scoops

tallaght01 wrote: »

How did they they do that? I have no access to the paper.

It all depends on the question you ask. In this case, the title was "A randomised comparative trial of yoga and relaxation to reduce stress and anxiety." So, you no longer have to prove that yoga or relaxation actually reduce stress or anxiety anymore; you only have to see how one is compared to the other. You don't even need a control group.

Now, I'm not saying that they don't work. There's probably lots more info out there that shows it does. But the results of this paper don't say that either significantly reduced stress or anxiety.

tallaght01

OK, so there was no "non intervention" group? And both interventions were equally efficacious?

Hopefully they at least both showed some change in whatever "stress questionnaire" they were using, after periods of yoga and PMR.

I wonder how we could perform placebo yoga?

sillymoo

2Scoops wrote: »

How interesting. Neither Yoga nor PMR significantly affected stress or anxiety so they set it up as an efficacy study between the two and said they were equally effective. That is to say, not effective! :rolleyes:

tallaght01 wrote: »

How did they they do that? I have no access to the paper.

2Scoops wrote: »

It all depends on the question you ask. In this case, the title was "A randomised comparative trial of yoga and relaxation to reduce stress and anxiety." So, you no longer have to prove that yoga or relaxation actually reduce stress or anxiety anymore; you only have to see how one is compared to the other. You don't even need a control group.

Now, I'm not saying that they don't work. There's probably lots more info out there that shows it does. But the results of this paper don't say that either significantly reduced stress or anxiety.

tallaght01 wrote: »

OK, so there was no "non intervention" group? And both interventions were equally efficacious?

Hopefully they at least both showed some change in whatever "stress questionnaire" they were using, after periods of yoga and PMR.

I wonder how we could perform placebo yoga?

You two just had to focus on the paper Typical scientists

tallaght01

Well, I can't read the paper, so I was just curious about what kind of quack science you were posting on this haven for serious minded people :P

To relax I do martial arts, and play my drums (I do both badly :P). Not two hobbies that you'd associate with stress relief. Possibly why I'm so highly strung

2Scoops

sillymoo wrote: »

You two just had to focus on the paper

Sorry, erm, I meant...eh.. indoor football? :pac:

JuliusCaesar

To reduce stress, you generally need a two-fold approach:

1. Do something about the things causing you stress, which may be internal (eg your thoughts) or external (eg noise)

2. Do something to reduce your stress reactions - physical, mental, emotional, behavioural. Laughter is good, exercise is good, the outdoors is good, relaxation is good.

Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy (CBT) is generally recommended for the internal stuff. Miindfulness Meditation is the in thing at the moment (Jon Kabat Zinn has written a lot on this).

Alcohol and comfort eating not good!

(Try the psychology forum for more on this topic )

Google Scholar is quite good....