Rock climbing envisioned as new treatment for depression

Sunday, May 28, 2017 - 20:41 in Health & Medicine

Scientists involved more than 100 individuals in a bouldering (rock climbing) intervention in Germany, where some hospitals have begun to use climbing as a therapeutic treatment. The team found the social, mental and physical endurance of bouldering could be successful psychotherapy for treating depression in adults.

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