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ArticlePhilosophy, ethics, and humanities in medicine : PEHM2011

Body Awareness: a phenomenological inquiry into the common ground of mind-body therapies.

Wolf E Mehling, Judith Wrubel, Jennifer J Daubenmier, Cynthia J Price, Catherine E Kerr, Theresa Silow, Viranjini Gopisetty, Anita L Stewart

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Article in Philosophy, ethics, and humanities in medicine : PEHM, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 133 papers, 9 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT02552615 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2014, after this paper: background citation

Investigation of the Effects of Spinal Stabilization and Body Awareness Exercises on Subjective Vertical Perception, Curve Magnitude, Body Symmetry and Quality of Life in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis

TypeinterventionalSponsorGözde GürRan2014 to 2015Enrolled30ConditionsAdolescent Idiopathic ScoliosisArmsbody awareness therapy, core stabilization exercises, traditional exercises
NCT03259438 naunknown statusnot on this mapstarted 2017, after this paper: background citation

Testing the Effects of Movement Based Interventions on Brain-Body Mechanisms in Fatigued Cancer Survivors

TypeinterventionalSponsorThe Miriam HospitalRan2017 to 2018Enrolled75ConditionsFatigue, Cancer SurvivorshipArmsQigong, Healthy Living (CHIP + Pre-Train)
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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  17. How does yoga reduce stress? A clinical trial testing psychological mechanisms.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Wolf E MehlingUniversity of California, San Francisco, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, California, USA. mehlingw@ocim.ucsf.edu
Judith Wrubel
Jennifer J Daubenmier
Cynthia J Price
Catherine E Kerr
Theresa Silow
Viranjini Gopisetty
Anita L Stewart

Funding

Effects of mindfulness meditation on somatosensory cortical maps in chronic painK01AT003459 · NCCIH · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI KERR, CATHERINE E · 2006 to 2010
$652k
Effects of Mind-Body Interventions on Metabolic Syndrome RiskK01AT004199 · NCCIH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI DAUBENMIER, JENNIFER JOAN · 2007 to 2011
$626k
Measure of Body AwarenessR21AT004467 · NCCIH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI MEHLING, WOLF E · 2009 to 2010
$381k
NCCIH NIH HHS K01AT003459NCCIH NIH HHS K01AT4199NCCIH NIH HHS R21 AT004467NCCIH NIH HHS R21AT004467
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Enhancing body awareness has been described as a key element or a mechanism of action for therapeutic approaches often categorized as mind-body approaches, such as yoga, TaiChi, Body-Oriented Psychotherapy, Body Awareness Therapy, mindfulness based therapies/meditation, Feldenkrais, Alexander Method, Breath Therapy and others with reported benefits for a variety of health conditions. To better understand the conceptualization of body awareness in mind-body therapies, leading practitioners and teaching faculty of these approaches were invited as well as their patients to participate in focus groups. The qualitative analysis of these focus groups with representative practitioners of body awareness practices, and the perspectives of their patients, elucidated the common ground of their understanding of body awareness. For them body awareness is an inseparable aspect of embodied self awareness realized in action and interaction with the environment and world. It is the awareness of embodiment as an innate tendency of our organism for emergent self-organization and wholeness. The process that patients undergo in these therapies was seen as a progression towards greater unity between body and self, very similar to the conceptualization of embodiment as dialectic of body and self described by some philosophers as being experienced in distinct developmental levels.

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Body ImageFemaleFocus GroupsHumansMaleMind-Body TherapiesSan Francisco

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PMCPMC3096919

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