HOW OFTEN: Four hours a week.
HOW IT WORKS: Since IBS has no confirmed cause, diagnosis is tricky and treatment of the debilitating symptoms - which include abdominal bloating and cramping, diarrhoea and constipation - is even more difficult.
However, researchers are beginning to discover that therapies focusing on the mind as well as the body are helpful to sufferers. Gasteroenterologists at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver found the ancient practice of yoga to be particularly effective.
So why should yoga be beneficial for IBS? As well as treating the body, yoga is thought to help treat the mind - the same reason cognitive behavioural therapy (or CBT) has proven to help IBS sufferers.
Monday, June 15, 2009
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