News tagged with therapists
Adults demonstrate modified immune response after receiving massage, researchers show
Researchers in Cedars-Sinai's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences have reported people who undergo massage experience measureable changes in their body's immune and endocrine response.
Sep 08, 2010 |
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Predicting what they say
An Australian-American team of investigators has made novel discoveries about the human ability to predict what other people are about to say. Their findings could have significant applications for educators, speech therapists, ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 29, 2010 |
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Acceptance is protection: How can parents support gender nonconforming and transgender children?
How should parents respond when their four years old son insists on wearing girls' clothes, or their daughter switches to using a male version of their name? These are the questions increasingly being asked of family therapist ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Dec 06, 2011 |
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How to turn conflict into collaboration when patients and physicians disagree
In an era when people are more informed about their care and more assertive with their physicians, an impasse can develop over issues as simple as a patient insisting on unnecessary tests or medications or as complicated ...
May 04, 2009 |
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'King's Speech' spotlights stress of stuttering
When the envelopes are opened Sunday at the Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood, Keiko Brown will be rooting for "The King's Speech" to take home best film, best actor, best everything.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 26, 2011 |
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Helping hands
(PhysOrg.com) -- In capstone project, mechanical engineering students apply innovative and collaborative skills to create a rehab glove that stroke patients can use at home
Dec 15, 2009 |
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Walking back to happiness
(PhysOrg.com) -- A unique exercise programme which has been proven to help women living with depression has been unveiled by researchers from The University of Nottingham.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 07, 2009 |
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PTs say proper fit and use of walking aids can prevent fall-related injuries in elderly
The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) is urging elderly adults who use canes and walkers as walking aids to be properly assessed and fitted by a physical therapist to avoid fall-related injuries. This advice comes ...
Jul 10, 2009 |
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Pushing the brain to find new pathways
Until recently, scientists believed that, following a stroke, a patient had about six months to regain any lost function. After that, patients would be forced to compensate for the lost function by focusing on their remaining ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 17, 2009 |
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