{"id":74543,"date":"2018-02-08T10:49:59","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T20:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=74543"},"modified":"2020-01-31T13:48:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T23:48:14","slug":"ptsd-mind-body-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/02\/08\/ptsd-mind-body-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind-body therapy effective for military veterans with PTSD<\/abbr>"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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Kathryn Braun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

(Editor’s note, March 13-This same research was the basis for a paper, published in a February 5, 2018, issue of Military Medicine<\/em> by Office of Public Health Professors Kathryn Braun and Alan Katz, that post-9\/11 veterans benefitted from the positive effects of yoga.)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Post-9\/11 military veterans who receive mind-body therapy have significant improvements in symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD<\/abbr>), according to a study co-authored by University of Hawaiʻi<\/span> at M\u0101noa<\/a> Professor Kathryn Braun<\/strong><\/a> in the Journal for Alternative and Complementary Medicine<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“Our findings show that mind-body interventions are effective in reducing the severity of PTSD<\/abbr> symptoms associated with combat,” said Braun, director and professor at the Office of Public Health Studies<\/a> within the Myron B. Thompson School of Social Work<\/a>. “They also can reduce depression and anxiety symptoms, and increase mindfulness and sleep quality in veterans with PTSD<\/abbr>.”<\/p>\n

Combat-related PTSD<\/abbr> is a major public health challenge for the Department of Defense and Veteran Affairs. When service members return from deployment with combat-related PTSD<\/abbr>, conventional therapies include cognitive behavioral therapy and antidepressant medications.<\/p>\n

But complementary and alternative treatments, such as mind-body therapies including meditation and yoga, are less invasive. Thus they may be more attractive to service members and veterans.<\/p>\n

Not only are mind-body therapies effective, but they may also be less costly than conventional treatments. For example, yoga can be taught and delivered to a dozen service members or veterans at a time.<\/p>\n

Study author Robin Cushing is an Army physician assistant who teaches yoga in military and veteran communities. “We reviewed 15 pieces of literature on the effects of mind-body interventions for veterans with PTSD<\/abbr>,” said Cushing. “Our findings show that, for the majority of participants, their PTSD<\/abbr> symptoms improved.”<\/p>\n

—By Theresa Kreif<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The study co-authored by ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½<\/abbr> M\u0101noa Professor Kathryn Braun was published in the Journal for Alternative and Complementary Medicine<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[165,241,449,158,596,9],"class_list":["post-74543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-health","tag-public-health","tag-public-health-sciences","tag-publication","tag-myron-b-thompson-school-of-social-work","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74543"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110426,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74543\/revisions\/110426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}