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    Low-Back Pain Exercise Prescription Chronic low-back pain is referred to‚ simply as pain in the lower back. It is considered chronic if it has been present for more than three months at a time. Chronic low back pain can come from injury‚ disease or stresses on different body structures. The pain coming from the lower back can range from aching‚ burning‚ tingling‚ sharp or stabbing. Eventually‚ this chronic illness can lead to or be the cause of back stiffness‚ decreased movement of the lower

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    presents the importance and meaningfulness of the running every weekend and being care-giver to his mother‚ therapist should address goal of time management and pain management to allow him to continue his desire. Client can successfully manage time by improving organizing skills‚ prioritize and sequencing. The client can successfully perform pain management by improving muscle power‚ muscle tone‚ Joint mobility and bend or reach. The therapist recommends clients to work on organizing schedules‚ having

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    Melissa A. Reeves Plato‚ Descartes‚ and The Matrix Essay 02/14/2014 Phil 201-B15 Liberty University Professor Ronald Kuykendall In comparing the movie The Matrix and the readings from Plato and Descartes‚ the major similarity found among the three is deception. It is the deception of the mind that these excerpts deal with. The idea of being in an illusion or reality is addressed. All three take into account sense perceptions. Also‚ all three have an outside influence that is controlling the

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    Does Descartes provide a convincing argument for the claim that mind and matter are distinct substances Descartes’ Argument For Dualism In his Meditations Rene Descartes aimed to reconstruct the whole of science by trying to prove the distinction between mind and matter. He gives an argument from doubt‚ and another from conceivability. I will give a brief summary of the foundations Descartes builds his thesis on‚ and then looking at his arguments and whether they are capable of persuading us

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    There are always two sides of the same coin‚ and the coin is the subject of existence. To go against Unger’s‚ I Do Not Exist‚ I will use Descartes view of dualism and the fact that‚ according to him‚ humans do exist. Yes‚ there are other views of existence that could go against both of these philosophical views‚ but Unger and Descartes really counterbalance each other. As mentioned before‚ Unger explains he doesn’t exist due to anything which exists having a finite amount of small parts. If these

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    Mouthwash on Periodontal Postoperative Pain Jaber Yaghini‚1 Ahmad Moghareh Abed‚2 Seyed Abolfazl Mostafavi‚3 and Najmeh Roshanzamir4 Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► Go to: Abstract Background: The need to relieve pain and inflammation after periodontal surgery and the side effects of systemic drugs and advantages of topical drugs‚ made us to evaluate the effect of Diclofenac mouthwash on periodontal postoperative pain. Methods: In this double-blind

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    One of the greatest icons in the field of philosophy‚ who can be described to have inscribed lasting fundamental legacies include Rene Descartes. This legendary philosopher formulated the mind body problem in which he tried to bring out the kind of relationship that exists between the brain of man and the body. This paper looks into discussing the theory in detail and in the course of discussion; reach an agreement as to whether there really are two kinds of distinct substances‚ in relation to the

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    Flanders September 15‚ 2014 The Divisibility of the Mind In his sixth Meditation‚ Descartes makes an argument that the mind and body are not a single entity. Instead‚ he believes that there is a clear distinction between those two concepts‚ partly due to the unequal ability to divide each into more basic components. This leads Descartes to the conclusion that mind and body exist separately as two parts in a duality. Descartes describes how the mind is simply a thing that can think. There are no separate

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    Pain: The Science of Suffering by Patrick Wall is a factual book that refutes the popular notion that pain is only a warning signal to danger and can be accurately measured. Wall first begins by giving anecdotes as examples to prove pain can be a paradox. For example‚ a soldier will not feel pain after being injured during combat despite being consciously aware of it and Ronald Reagan who was unaware of being shot in the chest contradicts the purpose of pain: to warn the beholder of threats. Wall

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    the Body”‚ Descartes tasked himself with using philosophical reasoning in determining truths of the universe and of his own being. Motivated to justify that which he has held to be true‚ and to use those truths to find answers for questions that he poses both of the truths themselves and of his own existence‚ Descartes became suspicious of even the most basic elements of himself. Therefore‚ he needed to explore one innate form that he could be absolutely sure of: his own mind. Descartes closes the

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