PURPOSE: Traditionally, nursing care has focused primarily on patients' problems and to
solve these problems on behalf of the patient. However, with the growing focus in health …

This case series describes the impact of various forms of exercise on symptoms associated
with osteoarthritis of the knee. A group of 15 women and men performed one of the …

Background: Cancer patients' strengths and capabilities have received little attention from
healthcare providers whose primary focus is on patients' problems. Thus, providers miss an …

This article covers stress management for athletes beginning with a brief behavioral
conceptualization of athletic performance and analysis of stress. Examples of external and …

Menopause affects a woman's life in various ways. The changes of menopause encompass
more than the physical symptoms most commonly addressed by traditional menopause …

Increasingly, we question 'what makes us healthy?', as well as 'what makes us ill?'. What
does this shift mean for frailty? Almost wholly defined in negative terms, the term 'frail'tends …

Health assets has emerged as an important concept in health care, representing patients'
strengths and perspectives, but has not received much attention in structured vocabularies …

The American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) asserts that complementary and
alternative medicine (CAM) may be used responsibly by occupational therapists and …

Picture yourself walking over hot coals barefoot and consider this: anyone walking over hot
coals without getting burned manifests the power of the mind over the body. Ordinary …

Health assets, or peoples' capacities and strengths, have been recognized by the World
Health Organization (WHO) as being necessary to strengthen and maintain health and …