Physiotherapy for patients with depression:Recent research progress  

作　　者：Hui-Ling Liu Jing Sun Shi-Feng Meng Ning Sun 

机构地区：[1]Department of Mental Health,First Clinical Medical College of Shanxi Medical University,Taiyuan 030000,Shanxi Province,China [2]Department of Rehabilitation,First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University,Taiyuan 030000,Shanxi Province,China [3]Department of Mental Health,First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University,Taiyuan 030000,Shanxi Province,China

出　　处：《World Journal of Psychiatry》2024年第5期635-643,共9页世界精神病学杂志

摘　　要：Depression,a common mental illness,seriously affects the health of individuals and has deleterious effects on society.The prevention and treatment of depression has drawn the attention of many researchers and has become an important social issue.The treatment strategies for depression include drugs,psychotherapy,and physiotherapy.Drug therapy is ineffective in some patients and psychotherapy has treatment limitations.As a reliable adjuvant therapy,physiotherapy compensates for the shortcomings of drug and psychotherapy and effectively reduces the disease recurrence rate.Physiotherapy is more scientific and rigorous,its methods are diverse,and to a certain extent,provides more choices for the treatment of depression.Physiotherapy can relieve symptoms in many ways,such as by improving the levels of neurobiochemical molecules,inhibiting the inflammatory response,regulating the neuroendocrine system,and increasing neuroplasticity.Physiotherapy has biological effects similar to those of antidepressants and may produce a superimposed impact when combined with other treatments.This article summarizes the findings on the use of physiotherapy to treat patients with depression over the past five years.It also discusses several methods of physiotherapy for treating depression from the aspects of clinical effect,mechanism of action,and disadvantages,thereby serving as a reference for the in-depth development of physiotherapy research.

关 键 词：DEPRESSION PHYSIOTHERAPY NON-PHARMACOLOGICAL Rehabilitation therapy Recent advances 

分 类 号：R749.4[医药卫生—神经病学与精神病学]