“Crawling Out of the Cocoon”: Patients' Experiences of a Physical Therapy Exercise Intervention in the Treatment of Major Depression | Zendy

Louise Danielsson | Zendy; Birgitta Kihlbom | Zendy; S Rosberg | Zendy

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“Crawling Out of the Cocoon”: Patients' Experiences of a Physical Therapy Exercise Intervention in the Treatment of Major Depression

Author(s) -

Louise Danielsson,

Birgitta Kihlbom,

S Rosberg

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

physical therapy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.998

H-Index - 150

eISSN - 1538-6724

pISSN - 0031-9023

DOI - 10.2522/ptj.20150076

Subject(s) - feeling , context (archaeology) , intervention (counseling) , depression (economics) , qualitative research , psychology , psychotherapist , randomized controlled trial , physical therapy , medicine , clinical psychology , psychiatry , social psychology , paleontology , social science , surgery , macroeconomics , sociology , economics , biology

Although the effectiveness of physical exercise for depression has been studied for many years, few studies have described patients' experiences of what exercise means to them, beyond the biological focus. Moreover, exercise as a treatment for depression is rarely explored in a physical therapy context.

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