Exercise Interventions for Mental Health

DESCRIPTION

• Exercise is empirically supported as an adjuvant to treatment as usual and in some cases as first-line treatment for disorders of mental health.
  • The level of evidence supporting implementation of exercise interventions and special considerations when doing so are heterogeneous across disorders of mental health.
• Exercise of various forms such as yoga, aerobic activity, and muscle strengthening has shown efficacy in a variety of disorders of mental health.
  • The approach may be tailored to the patient based on personal preference and the form of exercise most likely to be tolerated.
• Exercise has shown efficacy in reducing symptom severity, increasing quality of life, increasing physical health, and reducing physical comorbidities of disorders of mental health.