Patients should keep a diary of their own recovery, carefully documenting everything that happens to their health. These records help to recover quickly, as established by researchers from the University of Auckland in New Zealand.
wound healing
They asked 50 volunteers of both sexes, with the wounds of the skin every day to record over 20 minutes of their own unpleasant, traumatic experience. In the control group of other volunteers also keep records, but they only have documented their usual daily activities. Members of the first group were divided into paper their deepest emotions, they stated the fact that their most frustrating and the participants of the second just talked about how they plan to spend your day.
Two weeks later, all participants went through a biopsy of 4 mm layer of skin, which took samples on hand. Scientists have calculated the level wound healing . In the first group, 76% of the skin is completely healed after 11 days and the second group it was only 42%.
"Our study helps demonstrate the connection of mind and body, and the way we can on a psychological level impact on our physical health - says study leader Dr. Elizabeth Broadbent. - In the future, you need to carry out additional work in order to understand, to help you like emotional diaries of people with chronic wounds or patients who are recovering from surgery. "
One theory emotional diaries reduce the level of stress that is beneficial to the immune system. Stress hormones have a negative impact on sleep, they cause a reduction in the number of immune cells. For the process wound healing It is also very important phase of deep sleep. (READ MORE)
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