Deepening of the psycho-corporal therapy techniques in physiotherapy care.

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Supervisors

Ernoux Monique

Faculty

Faculté des sciences de la motricité

Degree label

Master [60] en kinésithérapie et réadaptation

Abstract

Mind-body therapies are a group of healing approaches that intensify the mind’s interactions with physical function to lead to relaxation and to improve overall health and well-being. Regular practice is requisite for deriving gain from these therapies, which have become popular over the last two decades. A growing body of research points out that mind-body therapies are safe and powerful ways of mitigating physical and emotional symptoms. Because these practices are pleasant, noninvasive, and helpful, they are most proper for patients and survivors to help handle their own care. The purpose of this literature review was to gain deeper insight into the psycho-corporal techniques and what it takes to perform them on patients with mental illness in physiotherapy. A documentary search was carried out based on 6 search engines. All types of studies meeting PICO(S) criteria, except the case report, were included in this review. To carry out a general inventory, the date of publication of the article did not constitute an exclusion criterion. A literature review was carried out based on 14 studies. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, cognitive-based therapy, mindfulness-based stress reduction, cognitive-behavioral stress management, Dejian mind-body intervention, interpersonal therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, intensive short-term dynamic therapy, vipassana meditation, yoga, and yogic breathing were described. Mind-body therapy application to depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder were reviewed. The large heterogeneity of the articles does not allow us to draw a precise conclusion on the adequate mindfulness approach for mentally ill patients. However, there were several conditions where the evidence for psycho-corporal therapies is quite strong such as depression. Moreover, given these promising results, it would be interesting for future studies to look at the different psychological diagnoses in order to better adapt the interventions for a specific population.