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> Results showed that physical activity is effective for reducing mild-to-moderate symptoms of depression, anxiety and psychological distress (median effect siz
by thenerdhead 3y ago
> Results showed that physical activity is effective for reducing mild-to-moderate symptoms of depression, anxiety and psychological distress (median effect size range=−0.42 to –0.60), compared with usual care across all populations.
> Our findings underscore the important role of physical activity in the management of mild-to-moderate symptoms of depression, anxiety and psychological distress.
You may also find https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4056176/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4056176/ (History of exercise as medicine) interesting.
- dweekly 3y agoOnly last month did I learn the origin of the term "medicine ball". Hippocrates prescribed its use!
- rootusrootus 3y agoAnd I am one of the 10000 people today who just learned that. Thanks for mentioning it!
- forgetfulness 3y agoThat probably tracks with a lot of people's experiences. It's good for prolonging a period where you're feeling good, or slowing down descent into a more severe episode, but when the depression has gotten to overwhelming levels, it's not of much help (if you can coordinate your limbs to perform it in the first place)
- giraffe_lady 3y agoAlso the feedback loop where a lot of the symptoms of depression are also causes of depression. And a lot of the verifiable treatments are "do the things a depressed person doesn't do." Which is not knocking either bit of real and correct knowledge. But from within the beast it's a different problem.