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About 50% of patients in the yoga or stretching classes reported feeling much better or completely better in relation to their back pain and function compared to about 20% of patients in the self-care group, said Ms. Sherman.

Yoga May Help Low Back Pain. Mental Effects? Not So Much Jennifer Corbett Dooren 2011

But self-care, self-management, is the secret to managing every form of chronic disease -- including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, depression and PTSD, asthma, emphysema and other lung conditions, Parkinson's disease, low back pain and a myriad of arthritic conditions, and cancers of all sorts.

Lloyd I. Sederer, MD: The Alzheimer's Prevention Program: A Book Review MD Lloyd I. Sederer 2012

So that is not really self-care ... the other would be that lots of folks who migrate to Mexico from the US are shy of authority in many forms ... but that is a whole nuther topic. gpkisner

Treating Food/Water Poisoning in Mexico, or Any Other Place 2009

More than 80% of the participants in the self-care group reported reading some of the book and doing some exercises, but time spent on the exercises was typically less than the class groups.

Yoga May Help Low Back Pain. Mental Effects? Not So Much Jennifer Corbett Dooren 2011

Twice as many patients in the yoga and stretching groups reported decreased medication use during the study compared to the self-care group.

Yoga May Help Low Back Pain. Mental Effects? Not So Much Jennifer Corbett Dooren 2011

Sensual eating involves taking pleasure in everything that goes into your mouth as an act of self-love and self-care.

Danielle Cavallucci: Constant Calorie Counting Spells Caving to Your Craving Danielle Cavallucci 2011

When I decided to get out of the marriage, I made a good decision, one based on a concept of self-care.

True You Janet Jackson 2011

The answer is in self-care—physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.

True You Janet Jackson 2011

Though I had been trained in various energy healing techniques while doing research for an earlier book, and had even begun giving a weekly workshop at Canyon Ranch on basic energy self-care techniques, I had not thought to try either energy healing or spirit-assisted healing on myself.

The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011

They were divided into three groups to compare two types of classes with patients using a self-care book that provided instruction on exercises and stretches to help treat lower pain.

Yoga May Help Low Back Pain. Mental Effects? Not So Much Jennifer Corbett Dooren 2011

The term self-care actually began in the radical-feminist health clinics of the late ’60s, when a group of women in California stole some plastic speculi and set out on a school bus to educate women in their own anatomy (a small mirror was often distributed as well) and also to perform pelvic exams on each other at a moment when the gynecological profession was almost entirely dominated by men.

In a Pandemic, Is ‘Wellness’ Just Being Well-off? Amy Larocca 2020