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reflective practice meditation and conscious might relieve bowel syndrome

A simple meditation technique can help relieve the torment suffered by patients with chronic intestinal disease, according to a recent study.

The research, conducted at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, found that women with irritable bowel syndrome who practiced "reflective practice meditation and conscious" (mindful) had a reduction in symptoms of 38 percent, far exceeding the reduction of almost twelve percent of women participating in a traditional support group.

addition, meditation helped reduce psychological distress and improved quality of life, the study found.
One of the study's authors said the practice, which is based on a Buddhist meditation technique, "empowering" patients to manage a disease that is difficult to treat.

"Treating IBS [IBS] is not easy, even with the best standard medical methods," said Olafur Palsson study co-author, associate professor, clinical psychologist and researcher, Department of Gastroenterology university. "It is chronic, and eventually, it is difficult to treat because it is complex."

meditation and conscious reflective practice helps practitioners to relax by focusing on the moment, paying attention to breathing, body and thoughts as they occur, without making judgments.
"It's a different way of using your mind and be aware," said Palsson . He noted that over two hundred hospitals around the country offer the training program of reflective practice meditation and conscious.
Learning this technique involves discipline, but "after a while, it becomes a natural," said Palsson . Added that "there is a clinical treatment, is more educational."

The findings were to be presented Saturday at the meeting of Digestive Disease Week in Chicago. Research presented at medical meetings should be considered preliminary as they have not undergone the scrutiny typical of publication in medical journals. Moreover, the number of study participants was small and the findings must be confirmed by larger studies.
irritable bowel syndrome is a common chronic disease that can begin from adolescence and become a lifelong condition. Symptoms include abdominal pain, cramps, diarrhea and constipation. Cases can range from mild to severe. Differs from inflammatory bowel disease, a more serious condition with a similar name.

In the U.S., the disease is more common in women, and about one in six people suffer from the condition, according to the National Institutes of Health. It is thought to arise from a genetic predisposition that is triggered by stress, gastrointestinal infection or gastrointestinal surgery.
Among the treatments are drugs antispasmodics to relax the colon, and medications to reduce constipation and diarrhea. Patients are advised to avoid drinks and foods that stimulate the intestines, such as alcohol, caffeinated beverages, some beans, chocolate and milk.

But the disease varies from person to person, and one system does not help at all, according to health officials.
For the study, 75 women from 19 to 71 years old with an average age of nearly 43, were randomly divided into two groups. One group participated in a training session on reflective practice meditation and conscious, and the other in a group traditional support, both with a duration of eight weeks.

rated groups in advance the potential benefit or "credibility" of treatments in a more or less the same, according to the study.
But at the end of eight weeks, the meditation group had a 26.4 percent reduction in "overall severity of symptoms, compared with a decrease of 6.2 percent in the support group. For the final three months, the gap persisted and that the improvement increased to a 38.2 percent reduction in symptoms for the meditation group, compared with a 11.8 percent reduction in the therapy group, the study found.

The study authors also noted that reflective practice meditation and conscious is cheap and widely available.
One expert praised the results of original research as powerful.
"It's a small sample, but I was impressed. Doing this with treatments that are not well defined is not easy," said Dr. Albena Halpert, gastroenterologist and assistant professor of medicine at the School of Medicine Boston University. "Other studies have looked at options psychological treatment, but this is the first to study reflective practice and conscious, and the results are robust. "

Halpert said he was surprised that both groups rate the potential benefit of treatment option that would to receive the same.
"may be considered a placebo effect or anything, but that the treatment works must believe in him," said Halpert . "It's interesting that people thought that [the treatment in reflective practice and conscious] have the same benefit as the support group. "