TWIW 56: Movement eases acute mental disorders

This Week In Wellness physical exercise could help reduce the amount of time people spend in acute mental health facilities and reduce their reliance on psychotropic medications when they are there according to a study published in SAGE Journals.

“The general attitude of medicine is that you treat the primary problem first, and exercise was never considered to be a life or death treatment option. Now that we know it’s so effective, it can become as fundamental as pharmacological intervention,” explains David Tomasi, a lecturer at the University of Vermont

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190521124650.htm

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2164956119848657