Month: August 2021

Manual Therapies week 7!

Explain your understanding of the difference between osteopathy and other forms of manual therapies such as chiropractic, remedial massage, etc. Manual therapies such as Chiropractic, Osteopathy, Remedial Massage, all address Musculoskeletal function, pain and injury, and each modality has its own particular training and application in approaches to treatment....
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Homeopathy weeks 6&7!

Choose any one (1) symptom of interest to you described by the client or their guardian. • Locate a rubric for this symptom in the repertory. For this one I looked up a lot of rubrics, including mind: Imagination, acute vivid, visual, animals bugs, impatient, impulsive, nostalgia, away from...
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TCM (weeks 6 & 7)!

Week 6  Discuss your experience while checking out a few tongues. Discuss some of the tongues posted on the forum. I did my draft on this page and when I pressed post to forum I got an error message and lost my work. There weren’t other posts when I...
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Manual Therapies (what I’m learning in Week 6)

Pritha is seeing a Chiropractor for the first time, on the advice of a friend. She has heard that the Chiropractor may be able to help with her neck pain and also her difficulty conceiving. Her friend Martha has recently fallen pregnant after being treated by a Chiropractor and...
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Traditional Chinese Medicine (what I’m learning in week 5)

Why are the 6 external pathogenic factors so important in diagnosis and treatment according to the philosophy of Chinese medicine? In your answer you could explain the relevance of these pathogenic factors as a cause of disease in modern life. The 6 external pathogenic factors of – Heat, Cold, Wind,...
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Homeopathy (what I’m learning in week 5)

• How is the homeopathic use of this substance similar or different to the use of this substance in another medicinal system/s? Zingiber Officinale – Ginger root, Shen Jiang Ginger is used in western herbal medicine as: an anti-inflammatory that assists with rheumatoid and osteoarthritis, and Asthma. It’s also...
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Manual Therapies (what I’m learning in Week 5

Answer both of the following questions: In your own words, describe two of the specialisations of physiotherapy Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Neurological Physiotherapy In 1906 therapists formed an association to differentiate trained and untrained practitioners. Today it is called ​The Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA). APA defines Physiotherapy as: ‘A healthcare profession that...
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