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Photo Slideshow: The Evolution of a Rec Center
September 19th, 2011 | 
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Maybe you want to take a 30 minute class, or get a massage or just get some weight training in. At UA, Campus Recreation offers a broader range of programs and classes to help people — whether students, faculty, staff or community members — enhance their mind, body, spirit connection while also engaging with others. And the center has begun to work more closely with other units, like Campus Health Service and UA BookStores, to collaborate on new programs.
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Posted in Mind Body Spirit | 
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Free Reiki Attunement Level 1 – Mind Body Spirit Soul – Music – Healing Angels
Free Reiki attunement…. http://www.reikihealinglight.org/freereiki.htm …feel the beautiful energies of Reiki. Heal yourself and others using reiki and tap into your natural healing gifts….After watching video please go to http://www.reikihealinglight.org/freereiki.htm to recieve free Reiki attunement, Reiki Manual and Reiki Certificate.
Please visit the Reiki Healing Light website to attain reiki master levels II and Master attunements…Enjoy the blessings within the video and the soothing uplifting music. Music by http://www.michaelhammer.com/ and video made by http://www.reikihealinglight.org/
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A Doctor’s Reflections on Illness in a High-Tech Era (February 18, 2009)
Robert L. Martensen, M.D., Ph.D. (Director, Office of History, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland; Lecturer, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; and Adviser, American College of Surgeons and Cunniff-Dixon Foundation on Palliative Care Education for Physicians) addressed the reasons for writing his book entitled, “A Life Worth Living: A Doctor’s Reflections on Illness in a High-Tech Era.” Dr. Martenson covered aspects of change and continuity in the practice and delivery of medical care in the United States. Specifically he discussed the elements of specialization, affluence, commercial values in medicine, the effects of medicare, the need for effectiveness research,” the prevalence of “corrupted speech,” and changes in the “social contract” of medicine. He concluded with questioning what it means to “live with a disease,” to “have interventions administered,” and to trust information regarding treatment options and ethical judgements/advice.
Duration : 0:57:20
Posted in Quality Of Life |
Tags: Center, Delivery of Health Care, ethics, history, Hour, medical, medicine, of, Quality Of Life, school, Social Values, Technology, Treatment Outcome, United States, university, Virginia |
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Meet Gary A., overcoming obstacles to an active life with MS
Ten years ago, Gary A. was a successful realtor with a large network of contacts. Life was uneventful until his boss noticed that Gary was slurring his words. Unaware of the problem, Gary assured him that alcohol was not a factor, and went for a checkup.
He was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, or MS, a neurological disease that Gary had never heard of. Gary faced MS with the determination to achieve the best quality of life possible, and he encourages others to do the same.
When he heard that Kessler Foundation Research Center was conducting clinical studies aimed at improving function in people with MS, he volunteered to participate. In the Neuroscience & Neuropsychology Laboratory, researchers were testing memory retraining strategies that that help people remember. More than 100 people have done the training, reported lab director Nancy Chiaravalloti, PhD, which has helped them in everyday activities like work and shopping. Its exciting to see an individual benefit, to witness the change in a persons outlook, she acknowledged, but our long-term objective is to develop rehabilitation strategies that improve quality of life for the larger population of people with MS.
Other studies measure improvement in brain function using functional magnetic resonance imaging or fMRI. This technology allows us to make a movie of the brain at work. We can see how the brain with MS behaves while performing a task, Dr. Chiaravalloti said. Comparing brains with and without MS helps researchers understand to effects of the disease and devise better rehabilitation strategies to help patients think, learn and remember. Gary participated in another study that uses virtual reality to help people improve their driving skills. Driving is essential for Gary, whos back at work in real estate, where he puts his knowledge and experience to use working with clients who have disabilities.
Today, Garys growing network includes people with all types of MS and all types of disabilities. Theres no doom and gloom at the monthly meetings of Garys support group, which feature invited speakers who help people cope with medical care, finances, insurance, transportation, employment, and other issues. Gary recalls how hard it was to face MS initially. I was very negative, he said. Participating in clinical studies helped me put my disability in perspective. Now, I’m much more open-minded. Ive learned better ways to overcome obstacles.
For more information about Kessler Foundation, go to http://www.KesslerFoundation.org
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Tags: Center, foundation, human, Kessler, neuropsychology, performance, Research, sci, stroke, tbi |
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New heart pump extends life of heart failure patients
An estimated 150,000 Americans have advanced heart failure.
And when standard medical therapy is no longer effective, and a near-term heart transplant is not available, implantable heart pumps often are the only other option for patients.
Results of a comparative clinical study, presented by a Duke cardiologist at the American Heart Associations Scientific Sessions in November 2009, indicate that a new kind of heart pump—a continuous flow pump– shows significant improvement in survival for heart failure patients, when compared to the more commonly used pulsatile flow heart pump.
The study findings show that after two years, significantly more patients with the new device survived free of stroke or another operation to replace the device, compared to patients with the older devicea four-fold improvement.
Dr. Joe Rogers, Duke cardiologist said The group of patients we studied werent even candidates for transplantation for some reason or another, so they were left a very little hope that they would have an improvement either in their survival or their quality of life. And we were able to demonstrate in this very sick population that we can improve both.
200 patients in the study all of whom had advanced heart failure- received either the new Heartmate II pump, or the standard pumping, pulsatile flow device. After one year, nearly 70 percent of patients on the new continuous flow pump survived, compared to 55 percent in the pulsatile flow group.
One of the Achilles heels of the older pumps was that they would tend to break, fairly reliably, somewhere within 12 or 18 months of implantation, and were not seeing that same kind of malfunction rate or breakage rate with the new device.
Doctors now hope to explore the new pumps use in patients who have less severe heart failure. The new pump is currently undergoing review for more widespread clinical use.
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