Archive for February, 2011
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THE PHYSICAL EXAMINATION OF YOUR KNEE: ALIGNMENT AND ABRASIONS
After taking a thorough patient history, your physician will begin the physical examination. The examination is based on inspection, what your physician can actually see, and palpation, what your physician can touch and feel. Alignment very simply refers to how your bones—from your hip, to your knee, all the way down to your foot and [...]
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RELAXATION TRAINING FOR WAYWARD NERVES: CREATIVE VISUALIZATION – RELAXATION SESSION – WALKING
Walk around the garden and notice if you feel lighter; you are wearing summer clothes and the grass is warm under your bare feet. You walk towards a yellow rose, and the colour surrounds your body; it fills you with tranquil feelings. Now you approach a white rose, you breathe in peace from its perfume. [...]
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LIVING WITH EPILEPSY: TAKING CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE
Sam was 22 years old and pleased with life. He’d had tonic clonic, grand mal seizures since he was 15, but these were well controlled. He had just got a job he really enjoyed as a management trainee in a local supermarket, and (even more important for Sam) had left home and for the first [...]