Maternity Hospitals in South Africa, what are the benefits of going to private birthing clinics as opposed to maternity hospitals?
While private maternity clinics also provide high-quality maternity care, the focus and philosophy of care may differ
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Behind the Scan: How Radiographers Play a Vital Role in Diagnosing Medical Conditions
From X-rays to MRIs, radiographers play a crucial role in medical diagnostics, ensuring patient safety and accurate imaging. Their expertise helps doctors detect conditions early, making them an indispensable part of health care.
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Exploring Neuro Focus Therapy for Optimal Brain Health
Neuro Focus Therapy represents a cutting-edge approach to optimizing brain function and unlocking your mind's full potential.
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Top 4 benefits of ballet
Classic ballet is often praised as the foundation of many strains of dance and has a long history of development in line with other classic disciplines, like opera and classical music. Besides providing exquisite entertainment and exposure to classical music to audiences, ballet has numerous benefits for those who dance.
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Prenatal Personal Training
Prenatal Personal Trainers It goes without saying that your body is going to change immensely whilst you carry a child inside of you, so many women are often confused as to how they should treat their body during pregnancy. Despite the advice your mother and grandmother have given you about the dangers of exercise during pregnancy, prenatal exercise can have massive benefits if done safely and correctly. Prenatal Personal Trainers have two specific goals in mind. Firstly, the want to train your body to have an easy and non-complicated labour
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Osteopaths
Osteopathy is a holistic approach to healthcare that focuses on the interrelationship between the body's structure, function, and self-healing capacity, emphasizing manual techniques to diagnose and treat musculoskeletal and other health conditions.
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Depression
Depression For years, mental illness has been a conversation that most would prefer to avoid. In South Africa alone there are 23 suicides a day. 70% of South Africa’s attempted suicides have been made by people suffering from a mental illness - whether it is depression, schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. With these statistics in mind, it is irresponsible for communities to not have open and honest conversations about mental health and the rise of depression amongst today’s societies. Depression is one of the most common mental illnesses that a
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Anusara Yoga: a branch of yoga for the spiritually inclined
Anusara yoga was founded by John Friend in the 1990s and can be classified as a branch of yoga based on Tantric philosophy, which focuses on alignment and order in one’s life. Anusara yoga emphasises the experience of joy through practising yoga and celebrates ‘the Universal Principle of Alignment’, which refers to a belief in the importance of balance and harmony in life. ‘Anusara’ means ‘to follow one’s heart’ and the practice of Anusara yoga is often referred to as ‘yoga of the heart’.
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Art Therapy: a creative solution for psychological distress
Art therapy is a method of expression that makes use of various artistic fields for emotional and psychological healing. Art therapy can be used as a therapeutic tool in two different manners, either by focusing on the art-making process as a therapeutic act or by focusing on an analysis of the patient’s work of art to reveal hidden aspects of their psyche.
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Buteyko Breathing Method
Buteyko Method The Buteyko Breathing Method is a healing practice that was developed by Doctor Konstantin Buteyko. The practice is a specific way and understanding of breathing t that focuses on healing asthma and other breathing related difficulties. What baffles people about the method is that it involves no medicine, not even herbs or homeopathic solutions. The technique relies solely on how the patient breathes. Buteyko developed the method when he found that most breathing related problems such as asthma, allergies and bronchitis are all
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Different Types of Oncologists: Who to See for Your Cancer Treatment
Cancer care isn’t one-size-fits-all. From medical oncologists to surgical oncologists, each specialist plays a key role in treatment. Discover which oncologist to see for your condition and how South African healthcare options can support your journey to recovery.
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Healthy habits to help those with depression
Medication and therapy sessions with a psychologist or counsellor are important factors in a person’s recovery from depression, but developing healthy daily habits should be given just as much consideration in one’s mental health plan. Healthy habits, such as practising a balanced diet, exercising regularly, nurturing relationships and hobbies and practising stress management techniques, can all drastically improve a person’s mental health.
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Deep Tissue Massage
Deep tissue massage is a therapeutic massage technique that focuses on reaching deeper layers of muscles and connective tissue to relieve chronic tension, pain, and stiffness
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Pregnancy
Pregnancy is a transformative journey marked by the development and nurturing of a new life within the female body.
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An introduction to Bodyworks
Bodywork therapy is a broad term that refers to a variety of treatments that aim to realign and restructure a patient’s body to improve its physical functioning, and to improve the patient’s mental health.
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Online Personal Trainer
Online Personal Training Many people who hear of Online Personal Training may find the concept bizarre – isn’t exercise supposed to be done away from the computer? The answer – not necessarily. The internet offers us a wide variety of opportunities and exercise has become one of them. An Online Personal Trainer is somebody who films classes and makes them available on the internet for people to follow along from the comfort of their own home. When it comes to choosing to follow a personal trainer online, there are a wide variety of benefits
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