Multicoloured strips scattered in patterns across shoulders, knees, backs or even faces are something you may have seen not only on athletes — volleyball players, track-and-field athletes, tennis players — but on perfectly ordinary people too. This is kinesiology tape, a therapeutic tape used to improve mobility, to give support to joints and ligaments and to reduce pain and swelling. Lately, tapes have found a use in cosmetology as well.
I can no longer remember when I first came across this method. It was many years ago, and over the years it has grown the small tricks and refinements I added while working both with patients and on my own blocks. In any case, my huge thanks to all the authors of publications on the subject, whose material I used when shaping this method for my own work, which is based on C. G. Jung's method of free association.
It is not easy to talk about a subject like this, but the hardest thing of all is for a person to admit that he or she has a sex addiction. That is why my clients most often come with questions about relationships or about problems in the family. And even after several sessions, once trust has grown between me and the client, very few are the first to speak about problems in their sex life or about the loss of control over their own body. My colleagues know that a client very often hides the real request; I call it "a screen
Dementia is a chronic or progressive disease of the brain in which memory, orientation, perception, learning, speech and judgement are impaired. The disease usually appears in old age, but it is not a normal sign of ageing. In Russia more than 1.5 million people suffer from dementia. Worldwide at least 44 million people live with dementia, which makes it a global problem that has to be addressed. There are different forms of dementia, such as Alzheimer's disease.
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