Research Opinions And Feedback Needed - Grad Student Work On Pts Community

[anthony]

I have found several studies that reference the benefits (The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine was one), though I was advised to seek the opinions of people who actually have to live this day to day rather than take these studies as absolute truth, which led me to this post :)

Sounds like solid advice to me. Do you have the studies you have looked at so we can take a look for ourselves? Only need the reference to them, we can get the actual study documents themselves.

 

[Chem Lady]

I have never had a doctor suggest an alternative medicine. Most doctors wanted to start me on meds and that was all they had to offer. The best medical doctors I had were GP's who honestly listened to my inquiries into alternative medicine and replied that, although the science didn't make sense to them, they had patients who felt better from it, so they were open minded. I have done all my own searching for things that have helped me.
As a science person myself, I initially found some alternative therapies "hokey", but as I got more and more desperate I have tried naturopathy, yoga, meditation and acupuncture, and I have considered energy-evening ideas like reiki and feng shui. Some of these have helped in some ways and not in others, but my mind as a science person has really been broadened to allow for much less rigour and much more mystery.

 

[joeylittle]

My query was an informal request, I wanted to gauge how these treatments were regarded in the PTS community. If this is too much for this forum I can certainly take my post down, I don't want to give the impression I was out for an incognito study to get feedback without the proper due diligence of an informed consent form.

No, you're fine - I only wanted to make sure I addressed the point. All is well.

Within it, she mentioned a study where yoga and breathing techniques produced better results than traditional therapies.

I'm kind of fixated on this issue of whether one is better than the other, or one successfully augments the other. Ultimately, it seems to be a convenient tie-in to her social sciences work, just another way in which body posture, breath can be relevant - slash - have a target audience.

Amy Cuddy, a facebook post from 2015:

Many people suffering from PTSD, and family and friends suffering from PTSD, have asked me if body-based/posture interventions are being used to help with recovery. It turns out there's a substantial body of work on this. Here's one example: Stanford scholar Emma Seppälä has used breathing-based yoga with veterans with PTSD to reduce anxiety, respiration rate, hyperarousal and the re-occurrence of traumatic memories and nightmares.

Article on study referenced, above: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/september/meditation-helps-ptsd-090514.html

Really interesting communications issues in some of those particulars of language.