Cancer patients receiving chemotherapeutic treatments routinely experience a wide range of distressing side effects, including nausea, vomiting, and dysphoria. Such symptoms often compromise patients quality of life and may lead to the decision to postpone or even reject future, potentially life-saving, treatments. In this article, we discuss the hypotheses that have been offered to explain the...

relaxation is one of the important mental skills in physical education and sportsactivities. relationship between relaxation and rhythmic exercises with anemphasis on flexibility-functional mechanisms of nervous system has receivedattention in recent studies. the aim of the present study was to investigate the effectof rhythmic exercises on deepening the relaxation of national judo athletes. fo...

conclusions the resistance training of moderate to high intensity was well-tolerated in ms patients and may be an effective intervention for improving muscle strength, functional ability and edss-based disease severity. results two patients of group e left the program. the other eight subjects completed the program with no ms-related exacerbations/complications. there was a significant change i...

BACKGROUND We previously measured the rate of regaining muscle strength during rehabilitation of lower leg muscles in patients following lower leg casting. Our primary aim in this study was to measure the rate of gain of strength in healthy individuals undergoing a similar training regime. Our secondary aim was to test the ability of MRI to provide a biomarker for muscle function. METHODS Men...

BACKGROUND Migraine is one of the most frequent headache diseases and impairs patients' quality of life. Up to now, many randomized studies reported efficacy of prophylactic therapy with medications such as beta-blockers or anti-epileptic drugs. Non-medical treatment, like aerobic endurance training, is considered to be an encouraging alternative in migraine prophylaxis. However, there is still...

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...

Research suggests that multiple forms of relaxation training (e.g., progressive muscle relaxation, meditation, breathing exercises, visualization, and autogenics) can help individuals reduce stress, enhance states, improve overall well-being. We examined three different, commonly used approaches to stress relaxation—progressive deep breathing, guided imagery—and evaluated them in a head-to-head...