{"id":7557,"date":"2012-10-25T10:12:41","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T14:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/?p=7557"},"modified":"2012-10-28T17:08:29","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T21:08:29","slug":"study-suggests-stress-reduction-technique-may-help-reduce-stress-improve-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2012\/10\/study-suggests-stress-reduction-technique-may-help-reduce-stress-improve-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Study suggests stress reduction technique may help reduce stress, improve sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the\u00a0 American College of Chest Physicians press release via EurekAlert!:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Stress\" src=\"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/images\/blogpics\/Stress2.jpg\" alt=\"Stress\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><strong>A simple, 10-minute stress reduction technique could help to relieve stress<\/strong>, improve sleep quality, and decrease fatigue.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, attempted to determine <strong>the effect of a brief, stress reduction technique, the 10-minute Tension Tamer, on improvement of stress levels and sleep parameters<\/strong> in 334 patients in a heart health program. After a 30-minute introductory workshop, subjects were given instruction and guided opportunities to practice 10-minute Tension Tamers over the course of four 30-minute visits with a stress management specialist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This brief technique, encouraged at bedtime, involves deep breathing and imagery using the subject&#8217;s personal preference<\/strong>. Of the patients, 65% improved their perceived stress by 6.6 points; while those not improving showed worsened stress levels by 4.6 points. Improvers also reported better sleep quality, decreased sleep latency, and decreased fatigue.<\/p>\n<p>This study was presented during CHEST 2012, the annual meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians, held October 20 \u2013 25, in Atlanta, Georgia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the\u00a0 American College of Chest Physicians press release via EurekAlert!: A simple, 10-minute stress reduction technique could help to relieve stress, improve sleep quality, and decrease fatigue. Researchers from&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2012\/10\/study-suggests-stress-reduction-technique-may-help-reduce-stress-improve-sleep\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,10],"tags":[191,49,362,62],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7557"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7758,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7557\/revisions\/7758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}