Articles Archive for March 2009

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Pain Management »
Initiatives have led to new developments in guidelines used for migraine management in the last five years in both the USA and in the UK. The guidelines being referred to are the UK MIPCA guidelines, the US Headache Consortium Guidelines, and the US Primary Care Network Guidelines. The genetic study breakthrough was done at the Helsinki University, Finland and the Sanger Institute, in the UK.
UK MIPCA Guidelines:
Issued in 1997, they have been advised and advocate an individualized approach to patient management of migraines. Doctors are to take into consideration the nature of the patient’s migraine …
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Aromatherapy »
Towards the end of the 19th Century, as a French chemist, Professor Rene Gattefosse, accidentally discovered the healing power of lavender essence, when he plunged his hand into a bowl of lavender oil after receiving a bad burn.
The burn healed quickly, without forming a blister or leaving a scar. He then began many years of research into the healing properties of essential oils. His knowledge increased further when he treated soldiers wounded during the 1914 – 1918 war and in 1928 he gave his treatment the name “Aromatherapie”.
His work was later extended by Dr. Jean …
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Health and Vitality »
There are many challenges you will have to face when dealing with chronic illness. If you have been diagnosed with having a long lasting health condition, then understanding it and learning what you can do yourself to manage it, can help greatly.
Having a chronic illness doesn’t have to mean that it is dangerous or deadly, asthma, diabetes and arthritis are all classed as chronic conditions that can be kept under control with medication and supervision. Providing you take care and have the proper treatment, people with these conditions can lead a normal life …
Stress & Relaxation »
Ask yourself what stress is and you will certainly come up with a laundry list of ideas. Ask your best friend the same question and you are likely to get different answers. Ask ten people that question and undoubtedly you will have ten different answers. As you can see, stress is different to every person. What one person considers stressful may not be stressful at all to another person. There are certainly different definitions of stress depending on who you ask.
There is, of course, a text book answer to what is stress. By definition, …
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