How Good Posture May Help with Depression Symptoms
By Rachael Rettner, Senior Writer | February 3, 2017 06:36pm ET
How Good Posture May Help with Depression Symptoms
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People with symptoms of depression may see temporary improvements to their mood by following the age-old advice to sit up straight, a new study from New Zealand suggests.
However, the researchers cautioned that the findings are preliminary; it's not yet known whether an upright posture could actually aid in treating depression, or if the effects last over the long term, they said.
"Changing posture is a simple, highly acceptable and low-risk intervention that could be applied either by itself or alongside other treatments," the researchers, from The University of Auckland, wrote in their paper, which will be published in the March 2017 issue of the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. "However, more research is required to corroborate these findings, especially in clinical settings" outside of a laboratory, they said.
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