Healing

Faith Healing and its Authenticity 84 percent of the world’s population has a faith. Of those who believe, 32 percent is Christian, 23 percent is Muslim, 15 percent is Hindu, 7 percent is Buddhist and 6 percent is a mix of many other religions. Many of these religions bring great focus on the belief in God, his miracles and his ability to help his creation in a time of need. From these beliefs branched the belief in faith healing, a treatments in which belief in prayer and of God’s help rather…

study was conducted locally to evaluate the usefulness of vacuum assisted closure therapy or VAC in the healing process of chronic diabetic foot ulcers. The National University Hospital (NUH) Multi-Disciplinary Team for Diabetic Foots problems in Singapore conducted this cohort study. The keywords that were used in the search engine were diabetic foot wound, negative pressure dressing and wound healing. The study was conducted in 11 patients aged between 18 and 69 years old were seen in the…

Impaired wound healing in the aged presents both major clinical and economic issues. With the constantly rising percentage of older people in the general population and the large cost of treating wounds within this specific patient group, the importance of examining and understanding the correlation between aging and wound healing cannot be undervalued. The process of wound healing is altered in aged individuals, historically being considered as defective; however there is now a general…

and Mozambican cultures that we studied this semester, specifically spiritist healing in Brazil and “traditional” healing in Northern Mozambique. Spiritist healing treats a “perispirit” which causes changes in the physical body of the patient (Lynch 2005: 14). “Traditional” healing involves a medium using their “indigenous knowledge” to decide how to treat their patients (West 2006: 23). The main symbol for spiritist healing in Brazil is Dr. Fritz. Dr. Fritz is a German doctor whose spirit…

Healing shame Most of you have never heard of the term Healing shame. This is a unique training program workshop designed for therapists and other related experts. Healing shame helps us understand different impacts caused b shame and how to deal with them. Shame can be defined as unwanted inner experience. It is mostly associated with feeling such as guilt, being unwanted, rejection among others. Shame makes a person feel unwanted. It makes a person feel nothing can be done to rectify or…

The saints go marching on Smith Wigglesworth born on June 8, 1959 in a small village called Menston located in Yorkshire England to John and Martha Wigglesworth; little did they know that their son would become one of the Generals in the great army of the Lord. Wigglesworth was born in whales at a time when a man named Booth had distanced himself from organized religion and started the Salvation Army, and the people of Whales were praying for a mighty move of God. Little did the people of Whales…

fenestrated epithelium. Hypoxia is the most important inducer of VEGF through pathways that involves intracellular hypoxia –inducible factor. VEGF is important in the promotion of neovascularization and cell growth in both normal and pathological wound healing. It serves as an endothelial cell mitogen, increases vascular hyperpermeability, and promotes deposition of an extravascular fibrin matrix. Multiple studies have indicated that VEGF is expressed at higher levels in the underlying dermis,…

insurance companies. Ethical Considerations The ethical standards that govern various touch therapies (i.e.) healing touch, therapeutic touch, and emotional freedom technique; have been discussed from the perspectives of The Health Insurance Portability Act (HIPAA) and the University Principles of Ethics. For example, one principle of the International Code of Ethics within the modality of healing touch is confidentiality, which is one and the same as the Health and Wellness confidentiality…

A knowledge gap exists in the area of utilizing prayer with patients as a nursing intervention to promote healing. I was only able to find one article that specifically focused on praying with patients as a nursing intervention in the clinical setting (Johnson et al., 2009). From this one study of ten women with recurring ovarian cancer, healing effects of prayer via nursing intervention was reported. In fact, most participants identified prayer as beneficial in promotion of emotional…

skin; however the disruption could extend to the dermis, subcutaneous fat, or even further down into the muscle or even the bone. Cutaneous wounds can be clinically categorised into acute wounds or chronic wounds depending on their time frame of healing. Wounds that repair themselves and that proceed normally…