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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"healing methods"”.
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Complementary and alternative medicine : nature, origins, ethics and regulation
Types of healing alternative to conventional medicine became increasingly popular in the latter quarter of the twentieth century and some physicians, hospitals and governments have begun to take the field seriously. While alternatives to whatever is considered to be conventional medicine have …
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Tendency of patients towards medical treatment and traditional healing in Sudan
… health-care sector and turn to the traditional healing system. This study aims to investigate the patients' treatment dilemma and reasons that lead patients to switching between the two health care systems (medical treatment and traditional healing). Moreover, it aims to highlight the attitude …
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Zulu traditional healers’ conceptualization and treatment of trauma
There has been advancement of healing where mainstream western medicine is concerned. Significant progress has been made in this regard, concerning integration as well as motivation of integration of indigenous or traditional healing methods to treat psychological illnesses. Literature has advised …
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Caregiving and Schizophrenia: Understanding the Worldview of Asian Indian Families
… include religious offerings, use of alternative healing methods, and consultation with faith healers. It was also found that the parents believed the role of karma (fate) to be the reason for the problems they were having but not for the actual cause of the illness. Caregiving was seen by the …
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Ambulatory Sub-Bandage Pressure Assessment: Background and implementation
… the socio-economic aspects, aetiology and healing methods (focusing on compression therapy) of venous leg ulcers, interface and stiffness measurement studies, and contemporary pressure measurement technologies. Gaps in knowledge relating to the effects of walking speed on sub-bandage …
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Mythic Metamorphosis: Re-shaping Identity in the Works of H.D.
In section fifteen of the poem The Walls Do Not Fall author Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) address her audience and articulates the purpose of the poet in the following lines: "we are the keepers of the secret,/ the carriers, the spinners/ of the rare intangible thread/ that binds all humanity/ to ancient …
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Cultural and Social Factors Impacting on the Programme to Prevent-Mother-To-Child-Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV in Namibia: a Case Study of the Kavango Region
… PMTCT programme. It investigates the treatment methods used by HIV-positive pregnant women for themselves and their unborn babies, neonatally, during pregnancy and after delivery, particularly in relation to the prevention of transmission of HIV. The thesis further investigates whether women …
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Nature therapy : developing a framework for practice
… medicine and curative rituals. The Shaman, the healing man, incorporated nature into rituals aiming to help both the individual and the community heal from misfortunes and make the transition from one life phase to another. However, the development of industry and urbanization put a distance …
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Inviting the Perspectives of Refugee Mental Health Interpreters: A Critical Narrative Analysis
… trauma collectively, which suggests collective healing methods to respond to collective trauma. This study also aimed to present concrete suggestions of how to aid interpreters and was able to discern several, including specific trainings (e.g. mental health, population-specific, work-life …
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Determining ideal staple size for small intestinal surgery in cats
… past the staple lines for intestinal healing. Methods: Two sizes of EndoGIA cartridges (2.0/2.5/3.0mm and 3.0/3.5/4.0mm) and two sizes of TA cartridges (2.5mm and 3.5mm), applied in a transverse manner across fresh cadaveric cat jejunum, were evaluated via intestinal burst pressure …
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Understanding factors affecting tendon healing: Characterising the role of obesity on tendon healing and homeostasis and augmenting its effects with growth factors
… modifiable risk factor for impaired tendon healing. Aims: This thesis aimed to understand epidemiological trends in rotator cuff injuries in Aotearoa/New Zealand; characterise the contribution of obesity on tendon homeostasis and healing; and evaluate the efficacy of a novel growth factor …
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The Ngoma Consciousness: IsiNgqi neSandi as existing and accessible tools for healing and therapy in Africa
… sound and chants) as accessible tools for healing and therapy. Ngoma, etymologically, is a proto-Bantu term for an African praxis within which exists an ecology of related institutions such as the practice of medicine, divination, crafts, music, and ritual. Central in this thesis is the …
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The Traditional Roles of Caring for Elders: Views from First Nations Elders Regarding Health, Violence, and Elder Abuse
… Traditional First Nations' belief systems, healing methods, and current legal and health care systems within Canada.</p> <p>This study used a community-based participatory research design to explore social and cultural context through the views of Carrier Sekani Elders in the Ts'il Kaz Koh …