The aged people enduring chronic back pain could benefit from the full effects of consciousness meditation (Mindfulness meditation). The results of a test pilote1, led by researchers of the faculty of medicine of the university of Pittsburgh, indicate that this practice can contribute to the relief of the pain associated to the pains of frequent backs at the eldests.
According to the results, after eight weeks of training, the topics of the meditation group accepted and tolerated their pains better that those of the group witness. They took to more of activities and were in better physical shape that the other.
The meditation of full consciousness
The interest of the meditation as tool of well-being and health knew an important flight thanks to the works of Jon Kabat-Zinn that finalized the meditation of full consciousness. This professor of medicine to the university of Massachusetts also founded and controlled a clinic of stress reduction within this institution.
Inspired of the techniques of the Zen Buddhism, the technique of meditation elaborated that it rests on the state of consciousness that results from the purposeful and deprived of judgement vigilance that carries itself on the present moment.
The researchers led by their test 37 men and women of 65 years and more suffering of curbed chronic back pain. The topics were registered to a program of eight weekly sessions of training of the technique or their name was registered on a waiting list (group witness). More than 75% of the topics followed the program and the majority among them faithfully continued to practice the meditation of full consciousness three months after the end of the training sessions, return the authors of the survey. close to the half of the participants of the meditation group declared to have reduced their consumption of medicines then intended to relieve the pain and to fight the insomnia.
The results of other exploratory clinical tests indicate that this approach could help the patients suffering from various chronic pains to live better with their pain and to reduce the limitations that the illness imposes them to the daily.
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