Improvement of heart rate variability by eurythmy therapy after a 6-week eurythmy therapy training

Integrative Cancer Therapies

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 111-119

  Seifert, Georg ^a   Kanitz, Jenny Lena ^a   Pretzer, Kim ^a   Henze, Günter ^a   Witt, Katharina ^b   Reulecke, Sina ^b   Voss, Andreas ^b  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

alternative medicine; anthroposophic medicine; CAM; complementary medicine

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ERGOMETER; EURYTHMY THERAPY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HIGH FREQUENCY OSCILLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TREATMENT DURATION;

ADULT; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MIND-BODY THERAPIES; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 84862012228     PISSN: 15347354     EISSN: 1552695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534735411413263     Document Type: Article

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