Group body psychotherapy for negative symptoms of schizophrenia

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Raphael Underwood reports on the findings of a recent RCT of group body psychotherapy for negative symptoms of schizophrenia, which finds that body psychotherapy did not have a clinically beneficial effect on reducing emotional withdrawal or improving social functioning.

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Effects of pilates exercise programmes for chronic low back pain

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In her debut blog, Jacquelyn Ryan asks if Pilates exercise programmes help chronic low back pain. Jacquelyn considers a new systematic review, which examined the literature to determine the effectiveness of Pilates exercises on pain and disability on chronic low back pain.

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Defining Pilates exercise

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Have you ever taken part in or even taught a Pilates class? Do you really know what it is and could you define it for others? We were interested to read a recently published paper by authors from Australia that aimed to describe Pilates exercise according to peer-reviewed literature, and compare definitions used in papers [read the full story…]