Acupuncture Helps Heart Failure Patients
Acupuncture helps heart failure patients.
Although exercise can be beneficial to patients with heart failure, exercising is a problem because shortness of breath and fatigue – which make vigorous or longer-term exercise difficult – are, in themselves, symptoms of heart failure.
But acupuncture can increase exercise tolerance.
The needles do not increase heart function; but they appear to boost skeletal muscle strength and thus, increase the distance patients can walk. Although heart disease is seen as a pump problem, it also involves inflammation and an imbalance in nerve transmitter substances; acupuncture seems to bring these systems back into balance.
A study found that focusing on acupuncture points associated in Traditional Chinese Medicine with muscle strength and inflammation allowed patients to walk further and get more exercise. The study appeared in the June 15, 2010 issue of the journal Heart and can be read online with subscription to the journal here: http://bit.ly/dlgsR7.
Yoga Helps Cancer Survivors
As many as two thirds of cancer patients suffer regularly from fatigue and difficulty sleeping long after their treatments have been discontinued. But a new study offers these people the promise of better sleep and improved quality of life.
Researchers found that cancer survivors who perform gentle yoga twice a week report they sleep better, feel less tired and enjoy better quality of life. The regimen included “breathing exercises, gentle Hatha and restorative yoga postures and mindfulness exercises.”
The largest study of its type, this brief outline was released May 20. Full details will be available when the study is formally presented at the June, 2010 meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
Save the Dark Mood for Halloween – How InSight Can Help
Seasons are changing, the sky is steely gray, fallen foliage reveals skeletons where there once were woods. Sounds like the start of a scary Hitchcock thriller doesn’t it?
For many people affected by seasonal change, these are the ominous signs of Fall & Winter– the foreboding seasons of mental gloom, darkness and sluggishness. It is tough to be jolly when you are tired and feel out of sync.
Don’t despair. This season can be different for you.
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