Archive for December, 2007

According to the recent research conducted by University of California, the herbal extracts of yellow-flowered mountain plant can increase the lifespan of fruit fly populations.

Rhodiola rosea is a herb used for stress-relief. But the research does not provide clinical evidence that Rhodiola can extend human life. Researchers found that it can extend the lifespan of a model organism.

Rhodiola rosea is also known as the ”golden root”. This herb grows in cold climates at high altitudes and it can be used as “anti-stress reliever”. This herb has anti-oxidative properties.

Patients who take the extract of Rhodiola rosea called SHR-5 with mild-to-moderate depression can experience fewer symptoms of depression than the people who received a placebo.

To know more about the research conducted on Rhodiola rosea, visit:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/

Cognitive therapy is the type of psychotherapy. Cognitive therapy is the therapy which is based on gaining approaches into the unconscious emotions and drives.

Cognitive therapy and factors of this therapy for treatment:

Many other therapies are also used for treating the depression, but all these therapies uses cognitive therapy as their part of the treatment.

The following are the factors helpful in providing relief for your mental disorders:

The factors of cognitive therapy which helps when you are in depression are:

Self evaluation: This type of factor in Cognitive therapy helps you in evaluating your self (that is, what activities you are performing and for what you are doing those activities).

If you are in depression state then the self evaluation will be in negative and critical states. By losing self evaluation, you have to face low self esteem and sense of failures.

Other factors related to this therapy used in the treatment of mental disorders are evaluation of life experiences, self talk, automatic thoughts, irrational ideas and beliefs, cognitive distortions and pessimistic thinking (thinking positively).

Physiotherapy is the therapy which provides provision of services and these services will help in maintaining and restoring maximum movement and functional ability though out your life span. It will help you in providing healthy heart.

It will provide treatment, rehabitalization, promoting and preventing by identifying and maximizing movement according to your body potential.

The treatment done using physiotherapy consumes 30- 45 minutes.

You can manage the following conditions using physiotherapy:

Physiotherapy helps in spinal and extremity manipulation. It will help in prevention and promotion of impairments such as functional limitations, disability and injury.

It will help in promotion and for maintaining quality of life and fitness. There is no age difference for taking help of this therapy.

• You can manage the neck and back pain using this therapy.
• It will provide relief from arthritis (spinal and joint conditions).
• This will help in biomechanical and muscular problems.
• Take help of this therapy if you suffer from cerebral palsy and spina bifida problems.
• If you suffer from heart and lung conditions, (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) follow physiotherapy.
• If you suffer from neurological conditions such as stroke and multiple sclerosis, you can take help of physiotherapy.

Psychotherapy is a therapy used for treating life threatening disease such as major depression (mental, emotional and psychiatry disorders).

This treatment can be achieved by verbally or by any another techniques.

Psychotherapy is the healthy and harmless detection. At present also, for so many diseases the treatments are lengthy and take lot of time for curing, but they will not give good results.

Psychotherapy will take considerable time than the other medical treatment. Although it takes considerable time, it gives better treatment for mental fluctuations. It is a better treatment than the short term treatment.

The main purpose of Psychotherapy is to remove the blocks of truth, that you should not think about what is already happened, but just you have to think about the cause behind it and correct it.

This is helpful to feel better with emotional difficulties. The emotional difficulties are due to job stress, chronic diseases or any learning problems.

The Psychotherapy and counseling are the terms used interchangeably. Psychiatrists are the experts who perform diagnosis and treatment for mental illness, their treatment mainly consists of medications and Psychotherapy.

Palm is a small part of your whole body but by applying pressure on the palms, this pressure will correspond to some particular areas of brain.

Palm therapy is used in relieving from emotional suffering.

Palm therapy is done by applying randomized pressure at particular points on palm.

Palm therapy is done for about fifty minutes.

This therapy will help to accelerate your potential through hand and brain, by touching or non touching areas or different lines of palms, which are related to brain activity.

This therapy will effect on the mind and help in providing relax from anxiety, traumatic memories, severe fevers, phobias, anger and grief. If the palm therapy is applied continuously with moderate pressure, then this will safely, quickly and effectively reduce the anxiety.

This therapy will accelerate positive thoughts and behavior patterns, talents, self esteem, motivation, mental activity and will power. It is an alternate treatment for anxiety before cardiac catherization.

The therapist who will perform this therapy will scan seven chakras [Chakra Healing] and will determine the individual needs. This therapy will become an actual therapy when universal energy flows into your body.

Physical therapy will provide the provision of services for restoring maximum movement and for improving functional ability throughout your lifespan.

Physical therapy will help when your child suffers from movement problems and will help when these movement problems will cause illness, disease or disability.

Physical therapy done by therapist:

In the treatment of physical therapy, first therapist will evaluate the source of the problem and will figure out the most effective way for improving mobility and will provide relief for any type of pain.

He advices you to do home exercises and will recommend the safe time for sports. Therapist will identify the potential posture and alignment problems. After identifying the problem, he creates the treatment plan.

Physical therapy treatment plan includes the following steps:

• He recommends training for improving strength.
• He advices you to improve your muscle flexibility by doing the stretching exercise. Aquatic therapy will help in strengthening weak muscles.
• He will provide list of balance and coordination activities for decreasing falls and injuries.
• He will advice, which include play activities or recreational that should be chosen by your child.
• This therapy is chosen by the people who suffer from impairment on musculoskeletal, neuromusculoskeletal, cardiopulmonary and integument systems.