What is Occupational Therapy? Occupational therapy interventions are designed to allow the child build on areas of strength and helps them to improve skills in areas of their weakness. Occupational therapy interventions are child-centered and often a session with an Occupational Therapist looks like a...
Changing established habits and making changes to lifestyle choices, in order to better wellbeing, can be quite difficult, thus simply providing advice to patients in order to achieve that healthier lifestyle usually presents obstacles such as resistance, inaction and enduring poor health (Watkins, 2018). Advice...
All drugs have some benefits and some side effects. The most popular side-effect associated with statins is muscle pain, it is due to particular concern about a link between statins and a potentially fatal muscle condition called rhabdomyolysis. Many papers have examined the prevalence of...
There are a lot of innovations in medicine around the world that have many beneficial effects for humanity. States like Japan, Germany, Italy are known for such great medical innovations. But, United States remains the world leader, having produced more than a half of the...
The oldest examples of aspirin were found on papyrus in ancient Egypt and in clay tablets in ancient sumeria. These described medicines made from willow tree bark extract and plants rich in salicylate. Western medicine also used these medicines to reduce fevers around 400 B.C,...
Pain that occurs due to injuries and illnesses affect your daily life like anything. If you keep on avoiding your pain, your overall health will start diminishing. Most people rely on home remedies for conditions like back, neck, and shoulder pain, etc. However, if you...
Your hearts starts beating very rapidly. The moment of truth. You open the document, read the paper, only to realize you have just been diagnosed with diabetes. You are in a complete state of shock. Then you realize it’s just too late to prevent it....
Haemodialysis is a method for removal of impurities such as creatinine, phosphorous and potassium and urea, as well as free water from the blood when kidney failure. If the patient has kidney malfunctions the impurities are removed by using artificial means of a machine called...
We’ve all read about the marvels of lasers, from the technological breakthroughs on laser surgery to teeth whitening. But did you know that there have been discoveries using lasers as a hair loss treatment in Toronto with low light lasers? In fact , the technology...
Background Physiotherapists receive long-term and detailed training to develop their skills on treatment methods of cervical musculoskeletal impairments. The most important reasons for the long training period are the presence of vital organs in the region and the widespread use of manual therapy (MT) techniques...
Introduction The role of a radiographer is to select imaging methods which are appropriate for every radiographic examination and to determine if the radiographs produced to answer the clinical question indicated on the request form. In order for a radiographer to fulfill their role, they...
It is critical in occupational therapy practice to use the appropriate models or frames of references to guide intervention for clients. For Hilary Henderson’s case, it would be most beneficial to apply three theories: The Model of Human Occupation (MOHO), the Biomechanical and Rehabilitative Frame...
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a psychiatric disorder mostly affecting children in preschool, grades, adults, and even adults. Its symptoms are low persistent attention and high hyperactivity and impulsivity. It is a sort of behavioral issue that has gotten generous mindfulness in both the school and...
What is Spinal Cord Injury? As soon as you hear the term ‘Spinal Cord Injury’ most of you would have pictured a nasty scene of a motor accident on the A12. You are not far off; spinal cord injury refers to any damage to the...
Colour has a potency in every side of life. From birth to death, our life scenario covers colour notionally and perceptibly. We perceive and experience them, thus we become more aware of them. The day starts with the sunrise colour and ends with the sunset...
Two-thirds of homeless individuals cite drug or alcohol use, and people who use drugs are seven times more likely than the general population to be homeless. A source of homelessness and a symptom of both is drug addiction. The difficulty of living on the streets...
Maintenance of oral hygiene is required for optimum periodontal health that increases the longevity of the person’s natural dentition. The objective of periodontal therapy is to reproduce an environment which results in a high standard of oral hygiene as inadequate oral hygiene is associated with...
Hyaluronic acid is a naturally occurring non-sulfated polysaccharide of the glycosaminoglycan family of the extracellular matrix of connective tissue, synovial fluid, and other tissues. 1,2 Synthesis of HA take place in the cell membranes of most of the body cells then secreted into the extracellular...
The curvy and lengthy nature of expanded access program of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for experimental drug therapy as well as the inability to enroll all the sick patients in the clinical trials led to the formation of a channel through which terminally...
Introduction Chemotherapy uses cytotoxic drugs to target cancer cells by killing them or preventing their growth and division (Macmillan, 2015). This means that chemotherapy is used ideally to stop the growth of cancer cells, but if this is not possible to slow the growth of...
Myth or Truth? AS Just disables Elderly Again, it’s folklore. It happens most often in white men and their age ranges between twenty to forty, though this may happen in children, also. It is rare and seldom starts after age 45. Nearly 90 percent of...
Introduction A stroke is a neurological condition where the blood supply to the brain is disrupted with on following cell death as a result. Strokes can be divided into ischemic strokes and hemorrhagic strokes. Depending on the affected area, the symptoms of a stroke and...
RNA interference (RNAi) is one of the most exciting and revolutionary new approaches to therapies that have attracted considerable amount of attention within the last few decades. It has been found that gene expression may be controlled at the level of messenger RNA via noncoding...
Exercise help people with mental health issues. The reason why I mention this is because it can be helpful for people with mental health issues, It can increase positive emotions, and give them a distraction kind of like “busy-work” to the brain. It causes their...
Physical therapy is “the treatment of disease, injury, or deformity by physical methods”. It is something that many people go through after a significant injury or when they are recovering from surgery. Not only does physical therapy help with the individual’s overall health, but it...
In the recent time, it has been said that MRSA infections in the western countries like America has increased and the mortality rate is increased than the AIDS. Life-threatening diseases are caused by toxins from CA-MRSA strain like Panton-Valentine Leukocidin (PVL) and Phenol-Soluble Modulins (PSM)....
A brain aneurysm is a bulging weak area in the wall of an artery that supplies blood to the brain. Aneurysms can be inherited or be caused by the hardening of the arteries, and aging. Some risk factors can be prevented, some can not. Risk...
CBT is a modern talk-based therapy that has grown in popularity in recent years, largely because there is a large evidence base from research and clinical practice to prove it is an effective therapy for a large range of mental health issues including, but not...
The National Institute of Mental Health defines schizophrenia as “a chronic, severe, and disabling mental disorder characterized by deficits in thought processes, perceptions, and emotional responsiveness.” Patients suffering from schizophrenia exhibit a diverse range of symptoms which are categorized under positive and negative. The positive...
“Becoming fearless isn’t the point. That’s impossible. It’s learning how to control your fear and how to be free from it”. Being fearless is not humane or moral. It is overcoming fear that makes you brave. To have no fear, is to not need to...
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