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Tension Headaches and the Effects of Massage

of the muscle contraction type are the most common, accounting for an estimated 90 percent of the headaches suffered over the cour...

Overview of Alcoholism

panic attacks, low self esteem, and substance abuse are other manifestations of adults survivors of abuse(Boulware, 2002). Most of...

Overview of the Painful Condition Known as Venous Leg Ulcers

of a pulmonary embolus" are warning signs that his patient may experience venous leg ulcers (RCN Institute, 1998). Complicating f...

Schizophrenia

been great strides made in the treatment of the disease, enabling many patients to live full lives (Mueser and McGurk 2036). What ...

Examination of Breast Cancer

& Estrin, 2003). However, a core biopsy or incisional biopsy is when just a small part of the tissue is used ( Pfeuffer & Estrin, ...

Trauma Registry Databases and How They Are Used

trauma registry, then, has been viewed as a critical component to the successful development of any hospital or critical care trau...

Definition and Types of PTSD

Hurricane Katrina is one of the most recent examples of an event that resulted in PTSD among some victims. Szegedy-Maszak (2005) ...

Coelho's The Alchemist and Fate

It is a "lie" that people are controlled by Fate, but at the same time, ones personal destiny is already laid out and what is more...

Overview of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

tendons in the passageway becomes irritated and swell (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, 2006). The result...

Collective Term Known as Dementia

instances that affects both genders of younger age groups (Draper, 2004, p. 82). Etiology Alzheimers disease is age-related, and ...

Bone Cancer Case Study and Nursing Interventions

nurses as they engage in diagnostic, prescriptive, and regulatory operations of nursing" (Horan, Doran and Timmins, 2004, p. 30). ...

Theoretical, Social, and Physiological Overview of Epilepsy

milder cases, a moderate amount of shaking may occur while the individual experiences a varied degree of disorientation and confus...

Transgenic Genetically Engineered Plant Applications

need to apply harmful pesticides. One of the precepts of transgenetics is that it will better the human condition. Today...

Heroism and the Life Example of Charlotte Perkins Gilman

into insanity, which becomes her only way she can avoid the domination that threatens to totally suffocate her individuality. In h...

Compaing Discrete Trial Training with Pivotal Response Training

This paper contains a twelve page literature review that discusses the treatment of autistic children through Discrete Trial Train...

Deadly Skin Cancer Form Malignant Melanoma

of UV radiation than where the ozone layer is intact. Even where there are no particular problems with overhead ozone, peop...

Crohn's Disease - An Extended Definition

and the beginning of the large intestine) accounts for about half of all cases (Thompson, 1993). However, Crohns Disease can also...

Case Study on Crisis Counseling

while the unexpected loss of your long-term job has created a presence of fear and intimidation as you consider having to reintrod...

Private Practice and Counseling That is Solution Focused

the counselor will try to understand the clients personal construction of the problem and help him to construct different meanings...

Inadequately Treating Mental Illness

continuation of any mental imbalance. It was not until the concept of the "mind" began to overtake such simplistic approaches, al...

Mentally Challenged and the Challenges This Represents

been diagnosed with a mental impairment that does not involve substance abuse, 5 million of these are considered to suffer from "s...

Repetitive Motion Injuries Such as Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

most common and most widely reported repetitive strain injury (NIN, 2005). Symptoms typically start gradually with a feeling of ...

Stroke Victims and Their Rights

The generic term "stroke" refers to a cerebro-vascular accident (CVA), which may occur on the left or right-hand side of the brain...

5 Questions on Problems Facing a School Principal

teacher needs to be more concerned about the possibility of legal entanglements arising from striking a student. Even though the ...

Cancer Interventions

care professionals and systems because of previous negative experiences. The literature emphasizes that all women, regardless of...

Angina Pectoris From a Nursing Perspective

risk factors that can be altered, with special attention to lowering cholesterol and blood pressure. B. Treatment of ischemia usua...

Overview of Sinusitis

whatever substances that have become trapped in it) toward openings known as ostia, which lead to a passageway in the back of the ...

Tables on Acute, Infectious, and Chronic Disease

1). Further, inadequate utilization of screening tests contribute to approximately half of the deaths resulting from cancer of th...

Examination of Diabetes

causes behind the increased incidence of this disease (Mathur and Shiel, 2003). Experts feel that, in general, the risk for type 2...

I Rode with Stonewall by Henry Kyd Douglas

the military critic... It is not my intention nor is it within the scope of this book to give a detailed report of the battle of B...