News tagged with therapists
Discovering Autism: Services go to those who fight hardest
From the day her son was diagnosed with autism nine years ago, Stacie Funk has made it her full-time job to find him the best possible help. Hiring lawyers and experts to press her case, she established herself as a mother ...
Dec 19, 2011 |
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Acceptance is protection: How can parents support gender nonconforming and transgender children?
How should parents respond when their four years old son insists on wearing girls' clothes, or their daughter switches to using a male version of their name? These are the questions increasingly being asked of family therapist ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Dec 06, 2011 |
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Secluding aggressive young offenders is always the last resort says four-country study
Seclusion should always be the last resort when it comes to dealing with aggressive episodes involving young offenders with psychiatric disorders, according to staff who took part in a four-country study published in the ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 03, 2011 |
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Architecture and design help the brain to recover
How does the hospital environment affect our rehabilitation? New research from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, into how the space around us affects the brain reveals that well-planned architecture, design and sensory ...
Nov 01, 2011 |
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Direct access to physical therapists associated with lower costs and fewer visits, new study says
A new study suggesting that "the role of the physician gatekeeper in regard to physical therapy may be unnecessary in many cases" could have significant implications for the US health care system, says the American Physical ...
Oct 13, 2011 |
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Change the environment, not the child: Study finds equal benefit for children with cerebral palsy
A successful new rehabilitation approach to treating children with cerebral palsy puts its focus on where a child lives and plays, not just improving the child's balance, posture and movement skills.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 17, 2011 |
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Using touch screens and apps to treat autism
As a commercial software expert for the financial services industry, Ted Conley was frustrated with the technology that a speech therapist recommended to help his developmentally disabled son. So he decided to build his own ...
Jul 22, 2011 |
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An app for your brain: new educational tool developed by U-M doctor
With a new application developed by a U-M neurologist, better understanding of the anatomy of the peripheral nervous system can be found right on your iPhone.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 12, 2011 |
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Massage eases low back pain in randomized controlled trial
Massage therapy helps ease chronic low back pain and improve function, according to a randomized controlled trial that the Annals of Internal Medicine will publish in its July 5 issue. The first study to compare structural and re ...
Jul 04, 2011 |
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Healing the world with laughter, physical therapy
If laughter is the best medicine, Mohamed Mohamed provides a double dose. The 24-year-old, who graduates this May from the College of Physicians and Surgeons with a doctorate in physical therapy, has been raising money for ...
May 16, 2011 |
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Shopping simulator leads to better therapy
A virtual reality system that will enable occupational therapists at the Repatriation General Hospital to better assess stroke victims will be launched today by Minister for Ageing Jennifer Rankine.
May 13, 2011 |
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Trust a large factor in the emotional process of family business succession
A new study from Family Process shows that passing down a family business is an emotional process, and key factors need to be in place in order for the transition to prove successful. The owner needs to trust other family ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 12, 2011 |
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'King's Speech' spotlights stress of stuttering
When the envelopes are opened Sunday at the Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood, Keiko Brown will be rooting for "The King's Speech" to take home best film, best actor, best everything.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 26, 2011 |
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'King's Speech' earns praise from kids who stutter
(AP) -- A movie about a stuttering monarch, without sex, car chases or sinewy super heroes, hardly sounds like blockbuster box-office fare.
Feb 04, 2011 |
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Adults demonstrate modified immune response after receiving massage, researchers show
Researchers in Cedars-Sinai's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences have reported people who undergo massage experience measureable changes in their body's immune and endocrine response.
Sep 08, 2010 |
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