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  • Quality of Life as Medicine: Interventions that Induce Salutogenesis. A Review of the Literature
    Social Indicators Research, 2011
    Co-Authors: Soren Ventegodt, Hatim A. Omar, Joav Merrick
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    This paper reviews the medical (salutogenic) effect of interventions that aim to improve quality of life. Review of studies where the global quality of life in chronically ill patients was improved independently of subjective and objective factors (like physical and mental health, yearly income, education, social network, self-esteem, sexual ability and problems or work). The methods used were subtypes of integrative Medicine (non-drug CAM) like mind body Medicine, body psychotherapy, clinical holistic Medicine, consciousness-based Medicine and sexology. In about 20 papers on QOL as Medicine, in cancer, coronary heart disease, chronic pain, mental illness, sexual dysfunction, low self-esteem, low working ability and poor QOL, the most successful intervention strategy seems to be to create a maternal, infantile bonding induced by a combination of conversation therapy and bodywork. The papers examined the treatments of over 2,000 chronically ill or dysfunctional patients and more than 20 different types of health problems . Global QOL measured by SEQOL, QOL5, QOL1, self-rated physical health, self-rated mental health, self-rated sexual functioning, anorgasmia, genital pain, self-rated working ability, self-rated relation to self, well-being, life-satisfaction, happiness, fulfillment of needs, experience of temporal and spatial domains, expression of life’s potentials, and objective functioning. We found “QOL as Medicine” able in the treatment of physical disorders and illnesses including chronic pain (Number Needed to Treat (NNT) = 1–3, Number Needed to Harm (NNH) > 500), in mental illness (NNT = 1–3, NNH > 500), in sexual dysfunctions (NNT = 1–2, NNH > 1,000), self-rated low working ability (NNT = 2, NNH > 500), and self-rated low QOL (NNT = 2, NNH > 2,000). We found that QOL improving interventions helped or cured 30–90% of the patients, typically within one year, independent of the type of health problem. “QOL as Medicine” seems to be able in improving chronic mental, somatic and sexual health issues without side effects.

  • meta analysis of positive effects side effects and adverse events of holistic mind body Medicine clinical holistic Medicine experience from denmark sweden united kingdom and germany
    International journal of adolescent medicine and health, 2009
    Co-Authors: Soren Ventegodt, Joav Merrick
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    About 50% of the general population has a chronic disease not cured by bioMedicine. OBJECTIVES: Meta-analysis of holistic clinical Medicine for which chronic patients were treated and outcomes were, 1) global quality of life, 2) self-rated physical/mental health, quality of life or ability of functioning, or 3) patients felt cured for a specific disease of dysfunction. METHOD: MEDLINE and PsycLNFO and specific journals were searched in January 2009. RESULTS: Eleven clinical studies (18,500 participants) were identified. Positive effects: Quality of life Number Needed to Treat (NNT) = 2, physical health problems NNT = 3, mental health problems NNT = 2, sexual dysfunctions NNT = 2, self esteem NNT = 2, working/studying ability NNT = 2, anorgasmia NNT = 1, other specific sexual dysfunctions NNT = 2. Of 791 patients treated was 617, or 78.0% cured (NNT = 1). Side effects and adverse events: re-traumatization Number Needed to Harm (NNH) > 18,500; brief reactive psychosis (if mentally ill) NNH = 4,625; brief reactive psychosis (if not mentally ill) NNH > 9,250; brief reactive psychosis, all patients NNH = 9,250; depression NNH > 18,500; depersonalization and derealization NNH > 18,500; iatrogenic disturbances NNH > 18,500; minor bone fractures (ribs, hand) NNH = 4,625; serious bone fractures (spine, scull, pelvis) NNH > 18,500; suicides during or less than three month after therapy NNH > 18,500; suicide attempts during or less than three month after therapy NNH > 18,500. Suicide was prevented NNT = 1. Therapeutic value TV = NNH/NNT = 9,250. CONCLUSIONS: Holistic clinical Medicine is an efficient complementary and alternative Medicine (CAM) treatment for chronic illnesses and health related problems. Every second patient with physical and mental disorders, sexual dysfunctions, and existential problems were healed. Holistic clinical Medicine had no significant side effects or adverse events. Language: en

  • similia similibus curentur in nonpharmaceutical Medicine the use of hippocrates healing principle of similarity in clinical holistic Medicine controlled violence and sexual abuse in holistic mind body Medicine
    International Journal on Disability and Human Development, 2009
    Co-Authors: Tove Kjolhede Nielsen, Soren Ventegodt, Line Frederiksen, Joav Merrick
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    Hippocrates induced healing (salutogenesis) with t he "principle of similarity" - like cures like. The similarity principle has been used in the holistic Mind-Body Medicine develo ped by the Swedish physician Bengt Stern, which recently has been found highly efficient in improving quality of life and normaliz ing sense of coherence (estimated NNT=2) without any side effects or adverse events. Stern's therapy mimics the most difficult e vents in life during role-plays. His unique therape utic program, "Meet yourself", takes the participant through the most difficult as pects of life, including birth, death, and neurotic and evil human interactions, also of violent and sexual nature. About 4000 patients have now been trough the "fascist exercise" without get ting side effects or adverse events (NNH > 4000). This exercise includes the methods of controlled sexual and psychological abuse ( level 8 in tools of clinical holistic Medicine). Since Freud it has been known t hat to rehabilitate a patient's health the healing of the patient's sexuality is particularly important. In his therapy Stern has do ne what Freud could not do for moral reasons hundred years ago: Making the full, painful drama of early life happen again for patien ts to heal not only their physical, mental disorder s and sexual dysfunctions, but their whole life and existence. The therapeutic pro gram is evaluated and found to be ethical and in ac cordance with the healing principles and traditions of holistic Medicine. The healing principles of CAM are used. Stern's "Meet yourself" course is an effective, nonpharmaceutical Medicine that does not cause any harm without side effects or adverse events.

  • formal errors in non pharmaceutical Medicine cam clinical Medicine mind body Medicine body psychotherapy holistic Medicine clinical holistic Medicine and sexology
    International journal of adolescent medicine and health, 2009
    Co-Authors: Soren Ventegodt, Niels Jorgen Andersen, Isack Kandel, Joav Merrick
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    This paper identifies five formal errors in non-dr ug Medicine including most types of complementary and alternative Medicine (CAM). These are based on five central principles of healing from the curriculum of the EU master in complementary, psychosocial and integrated health sciences (EU-MSc-CAM) from the Interuniversity College in Graz, Austria. An error is defined, as a therapeutic intervention that judged from establish ed scientific knowledge should have been done differently. We found formal errors regarding: 1) T he principle of salutogenesis, 2) The principle of similarity, 3) The principle that healing happens i n surplus of resources, 4) The principle of using a s little force as possible (primum non nocere), 5) Th e Hering's law of cure (you will get well in the opposite order of the way you got ill). From the pr imary errors secondary errors can be identified: A) Focusing on the patient's consciousness instead of the patient's unconscious, B) Wasting time on taking anamnesis and giving diagnoses, C) To ignore that the therapy does not help, D) Not to refer a patient that you know cannot be helped by you, E) N ot to observe that a close relationship does not develop between therapist and patient, F) To work o n a patient that you are not competent to help, G) Not to support the development of the patient into an independent person, H) Not letting go of the patient. None of the errors caused harm to the pati ent but slowed down healing. The presented list of errors is ideal for training and supervision.

  • comparative analysis of cost effectiveness of non drug Medicine non pharmaceutical holistic complementary and alternative Medicine cam and bioMedicine pharmaceutical drugs for all clinical conditions
    International Journal on Disability and Human Development, 2009
    Co-Authors: Soren Ventegodt, Niels Jorgen Andersen, Isack Kandel, Joav Merrick
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    Aim: To compare the cost-effectiveness of CAM (non-drug talk touch therapy) and bioMedicine (pharmaceutical drugs) for all clinical conditions. Method: Calculating cost per cured patient with physical, mental, existential and sexual health issues, year 1-50 for most efficient CAM treatments aneutical: NNT = 5-50). The cost of one year of short-term therapy (20 sessions) and drugs was 2,000€ and 2,000€ respectd most efficient pharmaceuticals. Mean NNT (number needed to treat) numbers were used (CAM: NNT = 2-6, pharmacively. Results: We found CAM to be 100 (10-500) times as cost-effective as pharmaceutical drugs for most clinical condition. The 50 years estimated cost for one patient cured was for: drugs 1,000,000€; physical therapy 100,000€; psychotherapy 200,000€; Mind-Body Medicine 100,000€; holistic mindbody Medicine 30,000€; one-session shamanistic healing with hallucinogenic drugs 2,000€. A large number of clinical conditions could be cured with CAM but not with drugs, which mainly only reduced symptoms. CAM is more efficient than drugs and has no side (adverse) effects and events, whereas treatment with drugs almost always has many often severe adverse effects and events. Interpretation: Drugs turn patients into chronic patients instead of curing. Half the population of the western world today is chronically ill, seemingly because of national health organ’s preference of bioMedicine instead of CAM. The shift from drugs to CAM would improve health radically in the society and reduce the cost of healthcare to a small fraction. Strict laws should be introduced immediately in all countries to stop pharmaceutical industries from promoting drugs without evidence of long term effect and from repressing CAM.

Gregory L. Fricchione - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • a mind body program for pain and stress management in active duty service members and veterans
    Psychological Services, 2019
    Co-Authors: Jeffrey Millegan, Rafaella J Jakubovic, Melissa Hiller D Lauby, Darshan H Mehta, Jagruti Bhakta, John W Denninger, Gregory L. Fricchione, Julia C Sager, Louisa G Sylvia
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    : The Mind-Body Medicine (MBM) program at the Naval Medical Center San Diego, created in collaboration with the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine and the Home Base Program at Massachusetts General Hospital, is a 7-week program designed to facilitate stress management habits into patient treatment plans. The aim of this study is to test the feasibility and acceptability of a Mind-Body program for service members and veterans. Participants (N = 239) were primarily active duty service members of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps reporting significant perceived stress (Stress Resiliency (SR) group; n = 124), or meeting criteria for chronic pain (Pain Management (PM) group; n = 115). Participants completed measures at preprogram and post-program assessing for perceived stress, pain, functional impairment, quality of life, and psychological and somatic symptoms. Changes in self-reported psychological symptoms and knowledge and practice of Mind-Body principles were examined. Participants across groups had significant improvement in most outcomes (perceived stress, response to stressful experience, functional impairment, sleep disturbance, depression, PTSD, and anxiety symptoms; and each quality of life domain aside from social relationships), with p values < .0017 (Bonferroni corrected level of significance). The SR group demonstrated significant improvements in primary outcomes of perceived stress and response to stressful experience, and the PM group demonstrated significant improvement in pain severity, but not perceived stress. Significant change was observed in knowledge and practice of Mind-Body Medicine principles, and high satisfaction was reported. Results suggest that a Mind-Body program may improve physical and psychological functioning for service members, including those facing significant perceived stress and chronic pain. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).

  • P04.28. Implementing a Mind-Body Medicine relaxation training program in an urban high school: changes in health behaviors, perceived stress, and anxiety.
    BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2012
    Co-Authors: Harvey Kent Wilson, Gregory L. Fricchione, Herbert Benson, Matthew A. Scult, Marilyn Wilcher, Rana Chudnofsky, Laura Malloy, John W Denninger
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    Purpose The negative impact of excessive stress on adolescents is linked to increased substance abuse, violence, and depression. The Relaxation Response (RR), a physiologic response opposite to the fight-or-flight response, has been shown to be effective in treating anxiety/depression and reducing stress in high school students. Several studies have demonstrated that RR-based interventions that involve psychoeducation and teaching relaxation strategies are related to decreased anxiety and perceived stress in high school students. These interventions have previously been led by study staff. This study’s objective was to assess the feasibility of having high school teachers implement an RR curriculum with their own students.

  • anxiety is a good indicator for somatic symptom reduction through behavioral Medicine intervention in a mind body Medicine clinic
    Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 2001
    Co-Authors: Mutsuhiro Nakao, Gregory L. Fricchione, Patricia Martin Arcari, Patricia Myers, Patricia C Zuttermeister, Margaret Baim, Carol Lynn Mandle, Cynthia Medich, Carol L Wellsfederman, Margaret Ennis
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    Background: This study examined the effect of anxiety on symptom reduction through a behavioral Medicine intervention in a Mind/Body Medicine Clinic. Method: Part

  • somatization and symptom reduction through a behavioral Medicine intervention in a mind body Medicine clinic
    Behavioral Medicine, 2001
    Co-Authors: Mutsuhiro Nakao, Gregory L. Fricchione, Patricia Myers, Patricia C Zuttermeister, Arthur J Barsky, Herbert Benson
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    The authors assessed data from 1,148 outpatients in a 10-week medical symptom reduction program to determine the effectiveness of a behavioral Medicine intervention among somatizing patients. The program included instruction in the relaxation response, cognitive restructuring, nutrition, and exercise. Before and after the intervention, the patients were evaluated on the Symptom Checklist-90 Revised (SCL-90R), the Medical Symptom Checklist, and the Stress Perception Scale. They were divided into high- and low-somatizing groups on the basis of the pretreatment SCL-90R somatization scale. At the end of the program, physical and psychological symptoms on the Medical Symptom Checklist and the SCL-90R were significantly reduced in both groups, with the reductions greater in the high-somatizing group. Improvements in stress perception were about the same in both groups, but the absence of an untreated control group precluded estimates of how much the improvements resulted from the behavioral Medicine intervention and how much from natural healing over time.

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