Acupuncture

Teamwork is the process of working well with a group of people to meet an aim and is important in improving the health and quality of life of an individual with dementia. ("When was the last time you said this?", 2016) In health and social care, a team consists of many individuals, the service user, health professionals, relatives, care workers and many more. Health professionals that may be involved are a GP, an occupational therapist, a nurse and social services. As part of a team, each…

Aging is inevitable in all living things. As individuals age, a number of things occur, both mental and physical. Graying hair and wrinkled skin are external signs of aging and the most noticeable. Cognitive changes, which are associated with mental processes such as sensation and perception, memory, intelligence, language, thought, and problem-solving, occur among aging adults (American Psychological Association, 2015). People age at different rates depending on genetics, diet, culture,…

Health psychologists deal with a wide range of chronic health issues on a daily basis from diabetes to addiction. One chronic health issue that individuals experience that is often seen by health psychologists is arthritis. This essay will discuss the problems experience with patients with arthritis and their families, psychological theories used to describe and treat arthritic pain, the issues discussed in literature, and coping with arthritis. What is Arthritis? Arthritis is not a single…

The definition for Autism according to Mayo Clinic is a serious neurodevelopmental disorder that impairs a child’s ability to communicate and interact with others. This also includes restricted repetitive behaviors, interests and activates. These issues cause significant impairment in social occupational and other areas of functioning. According to the Mayo Clinic the symptoms for Autism cover a wide field. The reason for this how each child with Autism acts differently than another. This is…

Inadequacy, Weakness, Failure. This is how you feel when you suffer from Anorexia. Anorexia Nervosa is an eating disorder that makes people starve themselves to death. Believe it or not, but many people suffer from eating disorders. Many people that you would not think are struggling with the way they look, are. We as humans view that being "skinny" and looking "beautiful/handsome" are very important. Some people take this into account much more than others. They begin to do things to their body…

Imagine a better world, one where we can finally help our economy, leadership and politics. China could help with that, not only with money but with our technology as well. Think about it, China has so many advancements and higher technology Alexander Graham says that ¨it makes us look like we’re back in the 1870’s when the first phone was invented.¨ We can use China on our side, and now that we’re beginning to be on good terms this really gives us a chance to improve. If we have China on our…

Traditional Chinese medicine practitioners use herbal medicines and various mind and body practices, such as acupuncture and tai chi, to treat or prevent health problems (“Traditional Chinese Medicine”, n.d.). In the book Essentials of Chinese medicine by Zhanwen Lui he says, “Methodology in Chinese Medicine developed in the course of explorations in human physiology…

Nystagmus refers to involuntary eye movements which are usually in the horizontal axis but can also be vertical or torsional. 1 According to the speed of the fast and slow phases, nystagmus is classified as pendular or jerky and based on the time of onset, into congenital (or infantile) and acquired types. 1-4 Infantile nystagmus syndrome (INS) may be further classified into sensory and motor types. In patients with sensory type, there is a recognizable structural abnormality leading to…

managed to find “the iceman”. This was a man that lived 5,300 years ago and was discovered in 1991 preserved in ice. Otzi had 57 tattoos, after a proper examination of his body specialist can assume that his tattoos were a form of treatment or acupuncture. Although tattoos have been around, their prevalence has only been popular dating back to the 1970’s when tattoos became a main stream part of fashion. This trend has spread nationwide so much so that in…

When I was there he scraped my hip with this piece of plastic and said it was to break up the cartilage and massaged my hip. For the first couple of times I went he just put a couple of needles called acupuncture in my hip which whenever he did it for some reason it always made a sharp lasting pain up by my side. I told him about the pain and he said that's unusual. For the rest of the time I was there he would hook the needles to this machine which put…