Regular exercise can reduce symptoms of anxiety
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Regular exercise can reduce symptoms of anxiety states a new study.
Exercise greater than 30 minutes are better at reducing anxiety according to researchers from university of georgia.
For study researchers analysed 40 radomised clinical trials that involved 3000 patients with variety of medical conditions.
Programmes with a duration of between three and 12 weeks appear to be more effective at reducing anxiety than those lasting more than 12 weeks.
"Our findings add to the growing body of evidence that physical activities such as walking or weight lifting may turn out to be the best medicine that physicians can prescribe to help their patients feel less anxious," said Matthew Herring, doctoral student in kinesiology, UG College of Education, who led the study.
"We found that exercise seems to work with just about everybody under most situations," said study co-author Pat O'Connor, professor and co-director of the UG-Atlanta Exercise Psychology Lab.
Exercise greater than 30 minutes are better at reducing anxiety according to researchers from university of georgia.
For study researchers analysed 40 radomised clinical trials that involved 3000 patients with variety of medical conditions.
Programmes with a duration of between three and 12 weeks appear to be more effective at reducing anxiety than those lasting more than 12 weeks.
"Our findings add to the growing body of evidence that physical activities such as walking or weight lifting may turn out to be the best medicine that physicians can prescribe to help their patients feel less anxious," said Matthew Herring, doctoral student in kinesiology, UG College of Education, who led the study.
"We found that exercise seems to work with just about everybody under most situations," said study co-author Pat O'Connor, professor and co-director of the UG-Atlanta Exercise Psychology Lab.
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