scholarly journals Clinical Holistic Medicine: Holistic Treatment of Rape and Incest Trauma

2005 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 288-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Søren Ventegodt ◽  
Isack Kandel ◽  
Shimshon Neikrug ◽  
Joav Merric
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Severe Trauma ◽  
Holistic Medicine ◽  
Emotional Life ◽  
Female Population ◽  
Holistic Treatment ◽  
Patient Will ◽  
Based Medicine

Studies indicate that at least 15% of the female population in western countries has experienced sexual abuse and severe sexual traumas. This paper explains how even serious sexual abuse and trauma can be healed when care and resources encourage the patient to return to the painful life events. When the physician cares and receives the trust of the patient, emotional holding and processing will follow quite naturally. Spontaneous regression seems to be an almost pain-free way of integrating the severe traumas from earlier experiences of rape and incest. This technique is a recommended alternative to classical timeline therapy using therapeutic commands. When traumatized patients distance themselves from their soul (feelings, sexuality, and existential depth), they often lose their energy and enjoyment of life. However, this does not mean that they are lost to life. Although it may seem paradoxical, a severe trauma may be a unique opportunity to regain enjoyment of life. The patient will often be richly rewarded for the extensive work of clearing and sorting out in order to experience a new depth in his or her existence and emotional life, with a new ability to understand life in general and other people in particular. So what may look like a tragedy can be transformed into a unique gift; if the patient gets sufficient support, there is the possibility of healing and learning. Consciousness-based medicine seems to provide severely traumatized patients with the quality of support and care needed for their soul to heal.

scholarly journals The Square Curve Paradigm for Research in Alternative, Complementary, and Holistic Medicine: A Cost-Effective, Easy, and Scientifically Valid Design for Evidence-Based Medicine and Quality Improvement

2003 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 1117-1127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soren Ventegodt ◽  
Niels JØrgen Andersen ◽  
Joav Merrick
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Evidence Based Medicine ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Holistic Medicine ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Life Questionnaire ◽  
Quality Of Life Questionnaire ◽  
New Research ◽  
Based Medicine

In this paper we present a new research paradigm for alternative, complementary, and holistic medicine — a low-cost, effective, and scientifically valid design for evidence-based medicine. Our aim is to find the simplest, cheapest, and most practical way to collect data of sufficient quality and validity to determine: (1) which kinds of treatment give a clinically relevant improvement to quality of life, health, and/or functionality; (2) which groups of patients can be aided by alternative, complementary, or holistic medicine; and (3) which therapists have the competence to achieve the clinically relevant improvements. Our solution to the problem is that a positive change in quality of life must be immediate to be taken as caused by an intervention. We define “immediate” as within 1 month of the intervention. If we can demonstrate a positive result with a group of chronic patients (20 or more patients who have had their disease or state of suffering for 1 year or more), who can be significantly helped within 1 month, and the situation is still improved 1 year after, we find it scientifically evidenced that this cure or intervention has helped the patients. We call this characteristic curve a “square curve”. If a global, generic, quality-of-life questionnaire like QOL5 or, even better, a QOL-Health-Ability questionnaire (a quality-of-life questionnaire combined with a self-evaluated health and ability to function questionnaire) is administered to the patients before and after the intervention, it is possible to document the effect of an intervention to a cost of only a few thousand Euros/USD. A general acceptance of this new research design will solve the problem that there is not enough money in alternative, complementary, and holistic medicine to pay the normal cost of a biomedical Cochrane study. As financial problems must not hinder the vital research in nonbiomedical medicine, we ask the scientific community to accept this new research standard.

scholarly journals Clinical Holistic Medicine: Applied Consciousness-Based Medicine

2004 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 96-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Søren Ventegodt ◽  
Joav Merrick
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Medical Treatment ◽  
Family Physician ◽  
Holistic Medicine ◽  
Doctor Who ◽  
The Family ◽  
Biomedical Treatment ◽  
Based Medicine ◽  
The Village

Consciousness-based medicine is our term for a form of medical treatment that works by direct appeal to the consciousness of the patient, in contrast to modern biomedical treatment where drugs are used to affect body chemistry. With this concept, maybe we are (in a sense) turning back to the “old medicine”, where the family physician was the all-concerned “old country doctor” who knew the child, the siblings, the parents, the family, and the village. In a series of papers on clinical holistic medicine, we would like to present the classic art of healing, where the physician works mostly with his hands, then show how the modern biomedical physician performs with biochemistry, and finally introduce consciousness-based medicine. Some of our questions will be: If you improve your quality of life, will you also improve your health? Will learning more about yourself bring more purpose in your life? Will finding someone to live with in a loving and mutually respectful relationship improve your health? Scientists and thinkers like Antonovsky, Frankl, Maslow, and Jung have pointed to love as a unique way to coherence in life, and thus to biological order and a better health. Several scientific studies have also suggested that patients who focus on improving their quality of life usually will not follow the general statistics for survival, since somehow other factors are at play, which sometimes you will find referred to as “exceptional”.

scholarly journals Clinical Holistic Medicine: Holistic Adolescent Medicine

2004 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 551-561 ◽  
Author(s):  
Søren Ventegodt ◽  
Mohammed Morad ◽  
Joseph Press ◽  
Joav Merrick ◽  
Daniel T.L. Shek
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Muscle Tension ◽  
Young Person ◽  
Holistic Medicine ◽  
Adolescent Medicine ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Holistic Treatment ◽  
Negative Beliefs

The holistic medical approach seems to be efficient and can also be used in adolescent medicine. Supporting the teenager to grow and develop is extremely important in order to prevent many of the problems they can carry into adulthood. The simple consciousness-based, holistic medicine — giving love, winning trust, giving holding, and getting permission to help the patient feel, understand, and let go of negative beliefs — is easy for the physician interested in this kind of practice and it requires little previous training for the physician to be able to care for his/her patient. A deeper insight into the principles of holistic treatment and a thorough understanding of our fellow human beings are making it work even better. Holistic medicine is not a miracle cure, but rather a means by which the empathic physician can support the patient in improving his/her future life in respect to quality of life, health, and functional capacity — through coaching the patient to work on him/herself in a hard and disciplined manner. When the patient is young, this work is so much easier. During our lifetime, we have several emotional traumas arranged in the subconscious mind with the smallest at the top, and it is normal for the person to work on a large number of traumatic events that have been processed to varying degrees. Some traumas have been acknowledged, some are still being explored by the person, and yet others are still preconscious, which can be seen for example in the form of muscle tension. Sometimes the young dysfunctional patient carries severe traumas of a violent or sexual nature, but the physician skilled in the holistic medical toolbox can help the patient on his/her way to an excellent quality of life, full self-expression, a love and sex life, and a realization of his/her talents — all that a young patient is typically dreaming about. Biomedicine is not necessary or even recommended when the physical or mental symptoms are caused by disturbances in the personal development that can be corrected with love and understanding. If possible, biomedicine must be avoided, even if this means suffering for the young person, who needs to confront the tough realities of life in order to grow into an able and sound adult.

scholarly journals The Life Mission Theory VI. A Theory for the Human Character: Healing with Holistic Medicine Through Recovery of Character and Purpose of Life

2004 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 859-880 ◽  
Author(s):  
Søren Ventegodt ◽  
Maximilian Kromann ◽  
Niels Jørgen Andersen ◽  
Joav Merrick
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Severe Disease ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Holistic Medicine ◽  
Ray Theory ◽  
Early Menopause ◽  
Australian Aboriginal ◽  
Based Medicine

The human character can be understood as an extension of the life mission or purpose of life, and explained as the primary tool of a person to impact others and express the purpose of life. Repression of the human character makes it impossible for a person to realize his personal mission in life and, therefore, is one of the primary causes of self-repression resulting in poor quality of life, health, and ability. From Hippocrates to Hahnemann, repression of physical, mental, and spiritual character can be seen as the prime cause of disease, while recovery of character has been the primary intention of the treatment. In this paper, human character is explained as an intersubjective aspect of consciousness with the ability to influence the consciousness of another person directly. To understand consciousness, we reintroduce the seven-ray theory of consciousness explaining consciousness in accordance with a fractal ontology with a bifurcation number of seven (the numbers four to ten work almost as well). A case report on a female, aged 35 years, with severe hormonal disturbances, diagnosed with extremely early menopause, is presented and treated according to the theory of holistic existential healing (the holistic process theory of healing). After recovery of her character and purpose of life, her quality of life dramatically improved and hormonal status normalized. We believe that the recovery of human character and purpose of life was the central intention of Hippocrates and thus the original essence of western medicine. Interestingly, there are strong parallels to the peyote medicine of the Native Americans, the African Sangomas, the Australian Aboriginal healers, and the old Nordic medicine. The recovery of human character was also the intention of Hahnemann's homeopathy. We believe that we are at the core of consciousness-based medicine, as recovery of purpose of life and human character has been practiced as medicine in most human cultures throughout time. We believe that such recovery can help some (motivated) patients to survive, even with severe disease.

Comprehensive rehabilitation of lymphatic oedema in women after mastectomy.

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 27-34
Author(s):  
Anna MARGOL ◽  
Adrian KUŻDŻAŁ ◽  
Grzegorz MAGOŃ
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
Lymphatic Drainage ◽  
Cancer Disease ◽  
Female Population ◽  
Holistic Treatment ◽  
Research Outcomes ◽  
Comprehensive Rehabilitation ◽  
Methods Of Treatment

Breast cancer is the most frequently occurring type of cancer among the female population. As a result, it poses a serious social problem, being subject to various scientific research and analysis. The topic of this thesis is an assessment o f a c o m p l e x r e h a b i l i t a t i o n o f lymphedema that occurs among females after mastectomy, which is the most frequent postoperative complication in this group of patients. The purpose of this thesis is an assessment of the quality of rehabilitation of patients and its effectiveness but also a recognition of the preferences concerning types of treatment. The analysis was divided into two parts: theoretical and explanatory. The research was conducted among m e m b e r s o f “ B i ł g o r a j s k i e Stowarzyszenie Amazonek” (The Amazons' Association in Biłgoraj) and Stowarzyszenie “Rzeszowski Klub Amazonek” (The Amazons' Club in Rzeszów). The first part includes an outline of cancer disease, its risk factors and methods of treatment. The explanatory part includes an answer to the hypothesis concerning the level of complex rehabilitation, its accessibility and effectiveness. The research shows that complex rehabilitation is a crucial element of the holistic treatment of cancer patients because it reduces the risk of complications, improves psychophysical conditions of patients and increases the chances of full recovery. The research outcomes demonstrate that the most frequently used treatment in the therapy of lymphedema is lymphatic drainage but also physiotherapy and kinesiotherapy treatments.

scholarly journals Clinical Holistic Medicine: Holistic Treatment of Children

2004 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 581-588 ◽  
Author(s):  
Søren Ventegodt ◽  
Mohammed Morad ◽  
Gideon Vardi ◽  
Joav Merrick
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Chronically Ill ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Holistic Medicine ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
Holistic Treatment ◽  
The Family ◽  
Based Medicine

We believe a holistic approach to problems in childhood and adolescence will benefit the child, adolescent, and the whole family. As a rule, children have far less to say in the family than their parents. Therefore, it is the parents who set the agenda and decide how things are done at home and in relation to the child. Most often, it is also the parents who have a problem when the child is not thriving. The child thus acts as the thermometer of the family. When children are not feeling well or are sick, the parents are not doing well either. Most problems arising from dysfunctional patterns are almost impossible for the parents to solve on their own, but with help and support from the holistically oriented physician, we believe that many problems can be discovered and solved. Not only can health problems be addressed, but also problems of poor thriving in the family in general. With the physician in the role of a coach, the family can be provided with relevant exercises that will change the patterns of dysfunction. Consciousness-based medicine also seems to be efficient with children and adolescents, who are much more sensitive to the psychosocial dimensions than adults. Five needs seem to be essential for the thriving and health of the child: attention, respect, love, acceptance (touch), and acknowledgment. The physician should be able to see if the child lacks fulfillment in one or more of these needs, and he can then demonstrate to the parents how these needs should be handled. This should be followed by simple instructions and exercises for the parents in the spirit of coaching. This approach is especially relevant when the child is chronically ill.

scholarly journals Clinical Holistic Medicine: Holistic Pelvic Examination and Holistic Treatment of Infertility

2004 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 148-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Søren Ventegodt ◽  
Mohammed Morad ◽  
Joav Merrick
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Reproductive Organs ◽  
The Body ◽  
Therapeutic Touch ◽  
Holistic Medicine ◽  
Present Condition ◽  
Pelvic Examination ◽  
Safe Place ◽  
Holistic Treatment ◽  
Holistic Practice

In clinical holistic practice, it is recommended that ample time is spent with the gynecological or pelvic examination, especially in cases of women with suspected old emotional traumas following early childhood cases of incest or sexual abuse. The holistic principles of holding and processing should be followed with the purpose of healing the patient, re-establishing the natural relationship with the body, sexuality, and reproductive organs. Sexual violations are often forcibly repressed. It appears that the tissues that were touched during the violation often bear the trauma. It is characteristic of these patients that their love lives are often problematic and do not provide the necessary support to heal the old wounds in the soul and therapy is therefore indicated. When this is concerned with the reproductive organs, it poses particular difficulties, as the therapy can easily be experienced as a repetition of the original violation, not least due to the risk of projection and transference. There is, therefore, a need for a procedure that is familiar to and safe for the patient, for all work that involves therapeutic touching of sexual organs over and beyond what is standard medical practice. This paper presents one case story of earlier child sexual abuse and one case of temporary infertility. We have established a procedure of slow or extended pelvic examination, where time is spent to make the patient familiar with the examination and accept the whole procedure, before the treatment is initiated. The procedure is carried out with a nurse, and 3 h are set aside. It includes conversation on the present condition and symptoms; concept of boundaries; about how earlier assaults can be projected into the present; establishment of the therapeutic room as a safe place; exercises on when to say “stop”; therapeutic touch; visualization of the pelvic examination step by step beforehand; touching on the outside of the clothes with repetition of the “stop” procedure if necessary; pelvic examination paying special attention to traumatized (damaged/scarred/blocked) areas with feel, acknowledge, and let go of the traumatized areas; postprocessing of emotions and traumas with final healing. The patient cannot be healed until negative decisions are found and dropped with a tour back to the present, to let go of negative sentences and ideas, and a plan for further positive progress.

scholarly journals Clinical Holistic Medicine: Whiplash, Fibromyalgia, and Chronic Fatigue

2005 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 340-354
Author(s):  
Søren Ventegodt ◽  
Mark Gringols ◽  
Joav Merrick
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Chronic Fatigue ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Holistic Medicine ◽  
Important Thing ◽  
Holistic Treatment ◽  
Based Medicine ◽  
Personal Energy ◽  
Insight Into

Holistic treatment of the highly complex, “new diseases” are often possible with the tools of consciousness-based medicine. The treatment is more complicated and the cure usually takes longer than for less-complex diseases. The problem with these patients is that they have less easily accessible resources than most patients, as they suffer from a combined socio-psycho-physical problem with depression, poor social standing, low confidence, and low self-esteem. Often, they have also already tried most of the specialist and alternative treatments on the market. To cure them, the most important thing is to coach them to improve their social life by changing their behavior to be of more value to others. Holding and processing must be especially careful and the contract with the patients must be extremely explicit in order to work on their personal development for 6—12 months. The new diseases can be cured with consciousness-based medicine if the patients are motivated and keep their appointments and agreements. Low responsibility, low personal energy, little joy of life, and limited insight into self and existence are some of the features of the new diseases that make them difficult to cure. The important thing is to keep a pace the patient can follow and give the patient a row of small successes and as few failures as possible. The new diseases are a challenge, a unique chance to improve communication, holding, and processing skills.

scholarly journals Web-based Medical Education During COVID-19 Lockdown: A Step Back or a Leap to the Future?

2021 ◽  
pp. 153473462110118
Author(s):  
Anna Eleftheriou ◽  
Aikaterini Rokou ◽  
Christos Argyriou ◽  
Nikolaos Papanas ◽  
George S. Georgiadis
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Clinical Training ◽  
Medical Training ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Clinical Exposure ◽  
Virtual Teaching ◽  
Based Medicine ◽  
The Impact

The impact of coronavirus infectious disease (COVID-19) on medical education has been substantial. Medical students require considerable clinical exposure. However, due to the risk of COVID-19, the majority of medical schools globally have discontinued their normal activities. The strengths of virtual teaching now include a variety of web-based resources. New interactive forms of virtual teaching are being developed to enable students to interact with patients from their homes. Conversely, students have received decreased clinical training in certain medical and surgical specialities, which may, in turn, reduce their performance, confidence, and abilities as future physicians. We sought to analyze the effect of telemedicine on the quality of medical education in this new emerging era and highlight the benefits and drawbacks of web-based medical training in building up future physicians. The COVID-19 pandemic has posed an unparalleled challenge to medical schools, which are aiming to deliver quality education to students virtually, balancing between evidence-based and experience-based medicine.

scholarly journals A Highly Effective Route for Real-Time Traffic Using an IoT Smart Algorithm for Tele-Surgery Using 5G Networks

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Radwan S. Abujassar ◽  
Husam Yaseen ◽  
Ahmad Samed Al-Adwan
Keyword(s):  
Live Streaming ◽  
Data Traffic ◽  
Data Packets ◽  
Real Time Traffic ◽  
Medical Quality ◽  
Optimal Smoothing ◽  
Patient Will ◽  
Three Stages ◽  
Exchange Data

Nowadays, networks use many different paths to exchange data. However, our research will construct a reliable path in the networks among a huge number of nodes for use in tele-surgery using medical applications such as healthcare tracking applications, including tele-surgery which lead to optimizing medical quality of service (m-QoS) during the COVID-19 situation. Many people could not travel due to the current issues, for fear of spreading the covid-19 virus. Therefore, our paper will provide a very trusted and reliable method of communication between a doctor and his patient so that the latter can do his operation even from a far distance. The communication between the doctor and his/her patient will be monitored by our proposed algorithm to make sure that the data will be received without delay. We test how we can invest buffer space that can be used efficiently to reduce delays between source and destination, avoiding loss of high-priority data packets. The results are presented in three stages. First, we show how to obtain the greatest possible reduction in rate variability when the surgeon begins an operation using live streaming. Second, the proposed algorithm reduces congestion on the determined path used for the online surgery. Third, we have evaluated the affection of optimal smoothing algorithm on the network parameters such as peak-to-mean ratio and delay to optimize m-QoS. We propose a new Smart-Rout Control algorithm (s-RCA) for creating a virtual smart path between source and destination to transfer the required data traffic between them, considering the number of hops and link delay. This provides a reliable connection that can be used in healthcare surgery to guarantee that all instructions are received without any delay, to be executed instantly. This idea can improve m-QoS in distance surgery, with trusted paths. The new s-RCA can be adapted with an existing routing protocol to track the primary path and monitor emergency packets received in node buffers, for direct forwarding via the demand path, with extended features.

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