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Healing Touch, 2007.
This paper discusses the therapy of human touch.
1,043 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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In this paper the writer notes that there is a contest going on between conventional and alternative methods of treating sicknesses. The writer points out that conventional or traditional medicine relies on pills and other forms of mechanical intrusion into the ailing body, while alternative or holistic medicine aims at restoring the ailing body's balance by filling up its depleted energy field. The writer discusses that opponents have come up with views of the healing touch method as mere superstition, which cannot be outwardly proved, but notes that it continues to gather advocates among the public. The writer explains that the healing touch is an alternative method of addressing and correcting human illness, especially psychological illness, by intruding into the patient's depleted energy field and manipulating it. The writer concludes that the healing touch should be recommended but should not replace what is strictly within the proven or commonplace jurisdiction of traditional or conventional medicine.
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Introduction
Body
Summary and Recommendation
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"A typical session starts with the patient sitting or lying down and the practitioner moves his hands over the patient's body without needing actual contact. The practitioner senses rough areas in the energy field. He is able to make an assessment or "diagnosis" in a few minutes. Many patients feel the sweeping motion made by the practitioner with his hands as a kind of warmth or pleasant vibration. The practitioner should desire the patient's well-being in order to produce the effect. Dr. Krieger said that the healing that follows is not a new concept. The touch somehow changes or improves the body's hemoglobin levels and this leads to the restoration of health. She insisted that the body's energy field is an electromagnetic phenomenon."
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Natural Healing in Pain Management, 2008.
A research proposal identifying specific natural healing methodologies and an analysis of which natural healing methodologies tend to work best with specific pain-causing conditions.
1,802 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 13 sources, APA, $ 57.95
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This research proposal discusses the use of natural healing methodology in pain management as a realistic and acceptable alternative to the use of traditional pain medications in today's society. The paper identifies specific natural healing methodologies and discusses which natural healing methodologies tend to work best with the different pain-causing conditions. It also provides a brief overview of the etiology of pain as it relates to various health conditions and discusses what researchers conclude must be accomplished to alleviate these conditions. The paper includes an annotated bibliography that is followed by a description of the methodology to be used for the study.
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Problem Statement
Background
Annotated Bibliography
Proposed Methodology
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"Natural healing methodologies are not without their detractors, though. In spite of numerous scientific studies that suggest these techniques are effective, many healthcare providers argue that some healthcare consumers may not recognize which ones are legitimate and which ones are not. Furthermore, to the extent that such inefficacious healthcare alternatives are pursued will likely be the extent to which the consumer fails to receive any benefit as well as missing out on the opportunity to receive the potential benefits of other natural healing methodologies with proven track records or a combination of such techniques with conventional medicine approaches. In this regard, Mccracken (1999) emphasizes that, "The pursuit of a useless remedy, even if it is in itself harmless, may close the way to an efficacious course of treatment" (p. 24)."
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Vitamins and Healing Rates, 2004.
A study of how the use of vitamins effects healing rates for wounds and ulcers.
2,556 words (approx. 10.2 pages), 18 sources, MLA, $ 77.95
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The goal of this study is to refine our current understanding of how nutritional supplements can effect wound healing, in general, and pressure ulcers, in particular. This research paper will explore the healing rates of pressure ulcers in patients who have been given multivitamin supplements alone, multivitamin supplements with Arginine, or supplements of 500 mg Vitamin C BID and 50 mg zinc. This paper hypothesizes that healing rates of Stage II and III pressure ulcers are similar in patients receiving multivitamin supplements alone or patients receiving 500 mg Vitamin C BID and 50 mg zinc and improved in patients receiving arginine supplements.
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Background
Pressure Ulcers and Wound Healing
Vitamin C
Zinc
Multivitamins
Arginine
Summary
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"Pressure ulcers are a common problem among patients in acute and long-term care facilities. Pressure ulcers can vary significantly in severity and condition. According to Agency for Health Care Policy and Research guidelines, stage II pressure ulcers consist of "Partial thickness skin loss involving epidermis, dermis or both (e.g., abrasion, blister, or shallow crater)" (Folkedahl, Frantz & Goode). Stage III pressure ulcers consist of wounds that involve skin loss of full thickness that may extend to underlying fascia, but not through the fascia. Clinically, a stage III pressure ulcer presents as a deep crater that may or may not undermine adjacent tissue (Folkedahl, Frantz & Goode)."
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Healing Ministries: A Book Review, 2006.
An analysis of "Healing Ministries", written by Leo Thomas.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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Leo Thomas was a Dominican priest that taught pastoral care for eleven years at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkley and the Menninger Foundation. As a member of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement in San Francisco and Seattle, Thomas became convinced that there were alternative methods of spiritual healing within the congregation. This paper provides background information on the career and religious philosophy of Dominican priest, Leo Thomas and discusses the book he wrote on spiritual healing entitled "Healing Ministries".
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"Thomas founded the Institute for Christian Ministries in order to address this need, then began to write about his knowledge as a means of sharing these concepts with others. For "Healing Ministries: A Practical Guide", Thomas worked with freelance writer and Christian Ministries board member Jan Alkire to produce the work. Leo Thomas passed away in 1997. Father Leo Thomas wanted to guide others to an understanding of how to teach healing. The concept of healing was directed at the spiritual health of the individual, and it concerned all individuals of all..."
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Nutrition and Wound Healing, 2008.
This paper discusses the importance of nutrition in wound healing.
1,334 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 44.95
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The paper discusses the importance of nurses understanding the process of wound healing and including nutritional interventions in their care plans. The paper relates that the patient must have a diet that is rich in protein, carbohydrates, lipids, Vitamins A and C, along with various minerals and explains that different nutritional needs are essential for each stage of wound healing. The paper looks at high risk patients; those with diabetes, older patients and those on dialysis.
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Introduction
Wound Healing and Nutrition
Pressure Ulcers
Patients at High Risk
The Nurse's Role
Conclusion
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"Nutrition plays an essential role in the pathology of wound healing because it allows for optimal healing. In addition, wounds cause an increase in body metabolism that can lead to extensive weight loss and a reduction in lean muscle mass, which then impairs wound healing (Nelson, 2003). Proper nutrition allows the body to regain its balance. Nurses need to understand the process of wound healing and include nutritional interventions in their care plans. Wound healing consists of three interrelated phases: inflammation; the proliferative stage; and a process of remodeling (Leininger, 2002). Different nutritional needs are essential for each stage of wound healing."
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Faith Healing, 2005.
A look at faith healing and religion.
3,375 words (approx. 13.5 pages), 20 sources, $ 133.95
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This paper considers the nature of faith healing in today's society and traces its development through a belief in shamanism in traditional societies, noting how religion and medicine are often fused, with the religious leader also being the medicine man who knows the secrets of healing. Christians have faith in the healing power of prayer and depict Jesus as a healer as well.
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"Religion and medicine have had a long relationship. In modern times, the two are often at odds, with some believing more in faith than in science and others taking the opposite view. In traditional societies, religion and medicine are often fused, with the religious leader also being the medicine man who knows the secrets of healing. Christians have faith in the healing power of prayer and depict Jesus as a healer as well. Certain groups place a greater emphasis on faith than medicine, such as Christian Scientists, who do not take their health issues to doctors but to God."
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Wound Healing, 2003.
An analysis of the factors that contribute to successful and unsuccessful wound healing.
1,107 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 38.95
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This paper examines how wounds and their subsequent repair are a process that occurs without complication in the majority of individuals throughout the course of their lives. It shows how there are a number of processes involved in the healing of a wound which include clot formation, inflammation, granulation formation, proliferation and remodeling. It covers the series of events that occur during the natural healing of an open wound in molecular detail and attempts to explain why some wounds do not heal well.
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"Wounds and their subsequent repair are a process that occurs without complication in the majority of individuals throughout the course of their lives. Initially, a thrombus is formed by the activation of platelets. This is followed by an inflammatory phase that involves the influx of members of the innate immune system such as PMN and macrophages. The macrophage plays an important role by orchestrating these events, and releasing FGF to cause the formation of granulation tissue in the proliferative phase. Here, fibroblasts lay down collagen and extracellular matrix as well as aiding angiogenesis. The wound can then close due to the proliferation of keratinocytes. The resultant scar can then be remodelled over the following months. Infection and disease can inhibit this process."
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Music and Healing, 2007.
This paper looks at music as a form of healing and therapy.
1,037 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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In this article, the writer discusses that music serves a number of uses in the modern world. The writer discusses the power of music as a balm to the soul and notes that music as a component of medical treatment has been shown in numerous studies. The writer further points out that other analysts dispute such findings and do not see music as having a beneficial effect. The nature of whatever effect there might be is examined, along with specific programs for using music as a healing tool. The writer points out that music therapy has had some difficulty gaining acceptance because it has not been fully tested empirically and because it is often connected with alternative healing therapies that are truly questionable and in any case are rejected by the medical establishment. Paper includes summary of each of the sources used.
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"Music is used today in a variety of therapeutic programs in spite of the fact that there is no clear evidence that music provides the benefits claimed. One study that has been conducted does suggest that music can be an effective tool in promoting health in rehabilitation situations. In this study, the respondents consisted of the long-term ill over a one-year period, and the music used came from four CD compilations from different genres. The study shows that music can be an important tool in the process of change, though it does not show whether any particular type of music is more effective than others."
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Healing Environments, 2005.
This paper explores the significance of healing environment design strategies in the health of the elderly.
3,150 words (approx. 12.6 pages), 10 sources, $ 124.95
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This paper discusses and analyzes whether or not using healing environment design strategies in senior assisted living and retirement communities affect the health and well-being of the elderly. Design methods and models are discussed and analyzed as key findings are determined and examined. The paper concludes that research studies are demonstrative of the benefits of healing environment design, which has also been proven to be advantageous for the health care provider and staff.
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"Alternative interior design practices that are representative of healing environments are gaining popularity as the demand for new methods for designing retirement and senior living communities for the aging increases. Sufficient evidence currently exists that justifies the need for implementing healing environment design methods in the built environment as a means to promote and support human health and well-being. Some researchers suggest that the elderly living in communities that offer senior living that are based on healing environments have higher rates satisfaction in living standards and are living longer compared to those seniors who live in the stereotypical retirement community and often experience cold and drab conditions."
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Holistic Healing, 2003.
An analysis of the role of holistic healing.
2,300 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 79.95
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This paper examines the role of holism in the delivery of effective care that facilitates healing. The concepts of holism, caring and healing are reviewed. Applications of the combined concepts are discussed.
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" This research reviews the concept of holistic healing. The concept of healing is relevant in a variety of contexts. As an example, people referred to a need for healing at both personal and societal levels in the United States..."
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Nutrition and Wound Healing, 2008.
This paper discusses the significant role of nutrition in wound healing.
714 words (approx. 2.9 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 25.95
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The paper explains that wound healing proceeds through three stages, each one with its special nutritional requirements. The paper discusses how problems with wound healing occur primarily because of inadequate nutrition and a lack of vitamins and minerals in the family diet.
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"Nutrition plays a significant part in wound healing since it enables optimal healing to occur. Proper nutrition enhances the body's ability to regain its balance. Because of children's susceptibility to wounds, parents need to understand the basic process of wound healing and the role of nutrition in wound care. Wound healing takes place through three interrelated phases: inflammation; the proliferative stage; and a process of remodeling (Leininger, 2002). Each stage of wound healing is marked by different nutritional needs. Problems with wound healing are explained by three main reasons: inadequate nutrition and a diet lacking in vitamins and minerals; infection; and problems with organ function. Leininger (2002) maintains that well-nourished individuals experience rapid and improved wound healing. Parents can promote wound healing by ensuring that their children have adequate and appropriate nutrition made up of appropriate calories and nutrients."
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Professionalism and Systems of Healing, 2008.
A descriptive essay on professionalism and healing in the medical profession
778 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 27.95
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The paper examines the various forms of professionalism by definition and explanation with respect to the faculty of medicine and health related issues.The paper continues with the subject of healing and its method of operation.
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Introduction
Professionalism
The Healing System
Summary
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"Professionalism in medicine is nothing more than the institutionalization of a male upper class monopoly. I must never confuse professionalism with expertise. Expertise is something to work for and to share; professionalism is - by definition - elitist and exclusive, sexist, racist and classist. In the American past, women who sought formal medical training were too ready to accept the professionalism that went with it. They made their gains in status - but only on the backs of their less privileged sisters - midwives, nurses and lay healers. The main goal today should never be to open up the exclusive medical profession to women, but to open up medicine to all women.
Professionalism is the ability to meet the relationship-centered expectations required to practice medicine competently. What does competence look alike? The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), the umbrella organization for certifying boards agree that competent physicians have abilities in the following areas: medical knowledge, patient care, professionalism, practice-based learning and improvement, interpersonal and communication skill, and system based practice."
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Children in Faith Healing Religions at Risk, 2000.
The effects of allowing parents in faith healing religions to deny their children medical care.
6,030 words (approx. 24.1 pages), 31 sources, MLA, $ 142.95
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A comprehensive analysis of the legality of parents denying their children access to health care on the basis of their involvement in a "faith healing" religion such as Christian Science or Faith Tabernacle. The paper explains that for some residents of the United States, traditional medicine is not religiously acceptable in the face of sickness. On the contrary, these residents are so strongly against medicine that they will not even allow their children to see a doctor if they suffer from life threatening illnesses. It discusses how many followers of these religions are denying the use of traditional medicine and joining a movement that shies from what society considers the norm for treating sickness by putting their belief in God's ability to heal their family's illnesses. The paper argues however, that parents' religious convictions about the disuse of any type of medicine for their children should not be allowed as a legal means of denying their children this medicine because these convictions often cause the needless deaths and suffering of many children whom medical care would have helped.
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"For centuries America has debated to what extent church and state should be separated. More recently the argument about the disuse of medical treatment for religious reasons and the resulting deaths of the children of certain religious organization's followers has arisen. Since the seventeenth century when settlers came to America to escape religious persecution and seek religious freedom, the issue of separation of church and state has been in debate (Council 1). However, not all religions were given equal rights before the Bill of Rights was created: in Boston anyone preaching outside the established church could be fined or banned from the settlement (Weiss 11). Also, in areas that practiced South Anglicanism, those who spoke out against the Christian faith were sentenced to death (Weiss 11). However, the first amendment to the American Bill of Rights, which was passed in September of 1789, changed these discriminatory practices on a federal level and caused less religious discrimination to occur (Weiss 31). This amendment states: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" (Bartlett 3). This amendment did not, however, guarantee the protection of United States citizens from state religious discrimination; but the fourteenth amendment, which was passed at a later date, did (Weiss 32). Opponents for and against parents' rights to deny their child medical care based on religious convictions are eager to solve the question of the relationship of church and state and the necessity of parents to obtain medical care as required by state governments. This issue has thus become a pressing argument that must be solved quickly because many children's lives are at stake."
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Meditation, Buddhism and Healing, 2002.
A look at the connection between Buddhist meditation and healing.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 8 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper presents the link between Buddhist meditation and healing in contemporary life.
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Spiritualism and Healing, 2002.
Explains how spiritualism and healing have reasserted against the authorities of organized religion and science.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 71.95
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Spiritualism and healing long faced resistance due to the failure of western institutions to understand the connection they made between mind, body and nature. Scholarly interests and social movements have gradually dispelled the opposition and influenced science and religion to acknowledge the value of spiritualism.
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