THERAPY


Meaning of THERAPY in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a therapy/counselling session (= when someone is given personal advice )

At one point his parents joined him for a family therapy session.

alternative medicine/therapies (= medical treatment that is not based on the usual western methods )

Acupuncture is widely used by practitioners of alternative medicine.

combination drug therapies

new combination drug therapies

electric shock therapy

electro-convulsive therapy

gene therapy (= using genes to treat diseases )

Scientists have successfully treated the disease using gene therapy.

gene therapy

group therapy

hormone replacement therapy

nicotine replacement therapy

occupational therapy

physical therapy

retail therapy

What you need is a bit of retail therapy!

speech therapy

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

alternative

Unhappy with the working environment, she decided to quit the job to pursue her interest in alternative therapy .

For those afflicted by headache, many alternative therapy options are available which focus more on prevention rather than treatment.

She says a range of alternative therapies have helped her improve.

Homoeopathy is the exception and is recommended as an alternative therapy should treatment with essential oils and herbs be only partially effective.

Michael Landy's Break Down is a piece of alternative retail therapy held on Britain's most famous shopping street.

I first became interested in alternative medicine and therapies because of the interest shown by Christians and others in Aromatherapy.

cognitive

In our second study we sought to confirm our findings that group and individual cognitive therapy were equally effective.

In this sense cognitive therapy might sometimes serve a preventive function.

Though the early stages of cognitive therapy are primarily behavioural, one often has to introduce cognitive material in order to facilitate tasks.

In their entirety the cognitive therapy techniques of Beck and his colleagues offer a complete system of psychotherapy.

Or it may take a more structured approach drawn from cognitive therapy techniques.

Discovering these chains or networks of negative irrational thoughts is the basis of cognitive therapy .

complementary

This is not to say that complementary therapies act only at the psychological level.

Anyone who has actually experienced acupuncture, or several other complementary therapies , will agree on this.

Pharmacological studies also indicate that these two forms of complementary therapy act through different pathways.

When a complementary therapy is shown to work, further questions arise.

Finding a therapist to help you Many complementary therapies exist which are concerned with holistic healing.

Yoga also highlights the need for investigating the preventive as well as the curative effects of complementary therapies .

Harlow degree majors include counselling, psychology and complementary therapies .

The second type are called complementary therapies .

conventional

The first are standard or conventional therapies .

Eighty-one patients who had failed conventional therapy took part.

effective

However, behaviour therapy was more effective than insight-oriented therapy for patients' subsequent depression, anxiety, and assertiveness.

Yet there is often no effective therapy for these diseases.

It has been postulated that the symptoms of gonorrhoea have diminished since the introduction of effective antibiotic therapy .

Therapeutic studies on intestinal M avium complex infection are missing and an effective therapy for cryptosporidiosis is not available at present.

individual

Therapeutic input makes heavy use of group work, though individual therapy is also possible.

The women also receive individual and group therapy .

In our second study we sought to confirm our findings that group and individual cognitive therapy were equally effective.

The treatment is individual therapy at least three times a week.

Some homes provide individual therapy , others may have group work on a regular basis.

If you want any further information and details of courses and individual therapy , send an sae to the Association for Stammerers.

Typically, individual therapy involves 12-20 sessions of 45-60 minutes over a three-month period.

Room for families to meet, for individual therapy and a working playroom for the children.

new

Bright new facilities and therapies were provided, plus enlightened teaching and special care.

Freud took these as the basic questions of the new psychological therapy he was inventing.

Interleukin-2 is a new therapy for the treatment of solid cancerous tumours, and is increasingly being accepted for use 2.

I did not want to be kept in the dark if promising new therapies existed that were still experimental.

These new therapies have completely transformed home health care as well.

occupational

In other words, they needed release from stress, and occupational therapy .

She also takes part in physical and occupational therapy programs at the Kennedy Krieger Institute for children.

The two charities have worked successfully together, advancing occupational therapy in the drug detoxification centres.

In the next year, the hospital turned over one more room for patients and two others for physical and occupational therapy .

Microcomputers and assessment in occupational therapy .

Group therapy every day. Occupational therapy.

Community health services for people with disabilities, such as physiotherapy and occupational therapy , are provided by Bassetlaw trust.

Sussexdown is a happy place, run by caring staff who provide a full 24-hour nursing service, physiotherapy and occupational therapy .

oral

Demanding oral triple therapy eradicates H pylori in up to 96% of patients treated but does have considerable side effects.

Mild to moderate hypophosphatemia can usually be managed with oral therapy .

The control group was treated with an oral triple therapy regimen which had previously been evaluated in a pilot study.

Behind the relatively simple physiological basis of oral rehydration therapy lurks a hidden danger.

It therefore had only a limited use in the oral short term therapy of urinary tract infections.

Patients with diarrhoea were given oral rehydration therapy for 24 hours and then returned to their normal feeds.

other

Simply removing this stress can, in many instances, restore an individual to normal function without any other therapy being required.

Aromatherapy, in common with other natural therapies , aims to strengthen the immune system.

Anyone who has actually experienced acupuncture, or several other complementary therapies , will agree on this.

Holistic aromatherapy, in common with other holistic therapies , demands a great deal of commitment from yourself.

People with dementia often respond to Reality Orientation and reminiscence or other therapies .

Complementary therapies , such as vitamin supplements, meditation etc. and other natural therapies are often found to be helpful.

The others were inactive and no other therapy was given except vitamins or loperamide.

physical

You will allow your arms to heal and then you will embark on a sensible and moderate course of physical therapy .

Prior to his appointment, Wehe has been a physical therapy supervisor at Altru.

Some of that has been accomplished inside the hospital by using new anesthetics and more intense physical therapy .

Their wing was equipped with a rocking-bed ward, an iron-lung ward, and a physical therapy room.

She also takes part in physical and occupational therapy programs at the Kennedy Krieger Institute for children.

She was hoping for a course of physical therapy .

In the next year, the hospital turned over one more room for patients and two others for physical and occupational therapy .

This may be accomplished by periodic formal physical therapy sessions backed up by daily home exercises.

shock

The first, Thomas F.. Eagleton, was axed after it was disclosed he had undergone electric shock therapy for depression.

The company had fallen into the habit of using George to administer a sort of organizational shock therapy .

Others might think it takes a controlled dangerous substance or shock therapy .

The subsidiary organization suddenly found itself in need of administering shock therapy to its members.

thrombolytic

Pre-hospital administration of thrombolytic therapy in the proper hands is feasible and safe.

In this particular case thrombolytic therapy proved useful in dissolving the clot and maintaining vessel patency.

There are some practices who could and should be giving thrombolytic therapy , there are others that can not and should not.

Review article Towards improved thrombolytic therapy Cardiovascular diseases are an important cause of death and disability, especially in western societies.

Improved thrombolytic therapy will most likely consist of potent specific plasminogen activators in combination with targeted anticoagulant and/or antiplatelet agents.

This type of study provided the impetus to investigation of the role of angioplasty for residual thrombosis following thrombolytic therapy .

Pain relief is essential, but I would like my thrombolytic therapy as well.

triple

Demanding oral triple therapy eradicates H pylori in up to 96% of patients treated but does have considerable side effects.

All were put on triple therapy within 90 days of infection.

The control group was treated with an oral triple therapy regimen which had previously been evaluated in a pilot study.

Patients treated with triple therapy , however, complain of considerable side effects which endangers compliance in routine clinical practice.

Giving the drugs four times daily in the triple therapy group might have further improved the treatment results.

■ NOUN

antibiotic

It has been postulated that the symptoms of gonorrhoea have diminished since the introduction of effective antibiotic therapy .

It can sometimes be difficult to decide when to start antibiotic therapy .

Twelve of these children received previous antibiotic therapy for various reasons, with possible inadvertent effects on the diagnosis of H pylori.

A course of low-dose tetracycline antibiotic therapy is often effective, but topical steroid creams should be avoided.

Despite aggressive antibiotic therapy , the epidemic strain continued to be isolated from his sputum and subsequently from blood cultures.

She received an 11-day course of empirical antibiotic therapy and was discharged.

aversion

What we practised was aversion therapy .

Apnea is a form of aversion therapy which produces a terrifying paralysis of breathing for about 60 seconds.

But I was not of that age, had no desire to learn programming languages, and had undergone game aversion therapy .

This is especially the case with the chemical and electrical aversion therapies .

I painted the nibbled area with a well known brand of chilli sauce as aversion therapy .

Imagery offers another approach to aversion therapy which is not as painful or invasive as the procedures mentioned above.

But cruel Freudian aversion therapy proved incapable of changing it, and the fashion then changed to hormonal explanations.

combination

But he says that any drugs to block this process would have to form part of a combination therapy .

Kaiser says it will also provide the latest three-drug combination therapies , if appropriate.

Data from combination therapy studies are also gradually becoming available.

Thus, for several reasons, combination therapy with artemisinin or a derivative makes therapeutic sense.

She said he had not shown any symptoms for some time but had recently started taking combination therapy drugs.

drug

Finally, such medical care will generally involve invasive drug therapy .

The cost of multi-\#drug therapies can run as high as $ 15,000 annually per patient.

But this sort of drug therapy is unlikely ever to be cheap.

Thus, it seems most reasonable to PostPone drug therapy of primary hyperuricemia until clinical manifestations occur.

The results of this approach are that some individuals may be committed to lifelong drug therapy which they do not need.

Disseminated histoplasmosis can be treated effectively if the diagnosis is made quickly and anti-fungal drug therapy is started early.

Without drug therapy she risks developing liver cancer, which would make a transplant her only hope of survival.

Barbiturates are no longer a recommended form of drug therapy for insomnia.

gene

Is it amenable to psychotherapy or gene therapy ?

Perhaps gene therapy could prevent the mutation of the prion gene that causes hereditary brain disease.

Male speaker One of the concerns of gene therapy is that other tissue will be affected.

Even if all goes well, it is unlikely that gene therapy treatment will be available for at least 10 years.

If successful, gene therapy could eventually offer effective treatment for as many as 4,000 hereditary illnesses, including cystic fibrosis.

Clearly, until these questions are answered, gene therapy will be reserved for life threatening diseases.

New treatments are being devised all the time: current developments include vaccines and gene therapy .

Thus gene therapy may be feasible for these patients.

group

Hamlet re-visited, or Art aspiring to the condition of group therapy for the chattering classes?

He made up his mind to participate in the group therapy sessions he had been sitting through mutely.

Psychotherapy and group therapy - as an out-patient or in-patient - may also be prescribed.

They meet in a daily group therapy session, and very quickly become lovers.

Some of them are returned to normal prisons before they ever make the intensive group therapy regime.

Manz told her physician about the idea, and he agreed that group therapy might just do the trick.

Most cricket schools prefer group therapy .

Services include group therapy , job counseling and blood tests to make sure his white-cell count is stable.

radiation

Souquet etal also emphasised the difficulty in interpreting parietal thickening in patients evaluated after radiation therapy .

The network focuses on a single application: networking powerful computers to help doctors plan radiation therapy for cancer treatment.

Supervised clinical training is provided in cytotoxic drug treatment and radiation therapy .

They also get radiation therapy five days a week throughout that time and for an additional three weeks.

Patient 4 who had been operated on before referral received additional radiation therapy .

The radiation therapy theoretically may have helped.

In two randomised prospective studies, however, no advantage of preoperative radiation therapy could be shown.

Diablo Medical Center for his radiation therapy .

regression

Is the discredited regression therapy still taught and used in any homes and, if so, will he make it illegal?

That seems a recipe for a mental breakdown. Regression therapy can also involve taking a patient back into the womb.

In many cases you will not be sure - particularly if this is your first experience of regression therapy .

Then one day Kirsty met an old friend who happened to have consulted me in the past for regression therapy .

It is quite likely that you not only have no experience of regression therapy but have never even been hypnotized before.

When this was faced and dealt with under regression therapy , the whole situation, including the shoulder spasm, was resolved.

Naturally, this is not so in the case of regression therapy .

replacement

During the intervening seven years, he has become replacement therapy for little girls who have just donated their dolls to Oxfam.

In this instance, with intact parathyroid and renal function, replacement therapy with vitamin D2 is the therapy of choice.

The manometer readings provide the best guide to circulatory volume and thus allow fluid replacement therapy to be accurately calculated.

It may reduce the accelerated bone loss of menopause, even in the absence of estrogen replacement therapy . 3.

Clinical trials have shown nicotine replacement therapy is the only treatment which can effectively treat tobacco dependence.

Only the benefits of estrogen replacement therapy have been clinically proven: It guards against heart disease and osteoporosis in post-menopausal women.

If magnesium depletion is the cause of the hypocalcemia, replacement therapy with magnesium should be instituted.

session

Weeping in therapy sessions , say some, can be used as a defence against having to talk about the pain.

He made up his mind to participate in the group therapy sessions he had been sitting through mutely.

He and other psychoanalysts have relied on dreams recollected during therapy sessions , or those they could recall themselves.

A mutual therapy session for emotionally dislocated correspondents.

He may not have lost his ability to balance, or he may have relearned it through his therapy sessions .

They meet in a daily group therapy session , and very quickly become lovers.

In addition, she stopped acting out, both at home and at school, and the therapy sessions became more productive.

speech

They combined domestic, personal care, and specialist skills, taught by other professionals, such as physiotherapy, or speech therapy .

I was never in speech therapy .

For the past 18 months Norman has had intense physiotherapy and speech therapy to maximise the use of muscles he can move.

Mthough there is some evidence that this recovery is hastened by speech therapy , it may also occur without any therapy.

Additional physiotherapy, occupational and speech therapy services.

Because of his language difficulties, his kindergarten teacher had quickly referred him for speech therapy to help him articulate certain sounds.

After the surgery Donal had speech therapy and felt able to do some work.

■ VERB

develop

In general, drug-induced ventricular tachyarrhythmias develop soon after drug therapy begins.

Extensive use of these drugs has uncovered a small group of individuals who develop hypercalcemia during thiazide therapy .

Genome Therapeutics Corp., which develops therapies based on genetics, had a 300 percent return.

help

I wonder whether therapy or counselling would help him and/or us.

The radiation therapy theoretically may have helped .

Will revealed this week how he had therapy to help with the guilt.

Because of his language difficulties, his kindergarten teacher had quickly referred him for speech therapy to help him articulate certain sounds.

She says a range of alternative therapies have helped her improve.

We now know more about different therapies which can really help older people get the most out of life.

He may be able to prescribe some therapy that can help .

Now he sits on a therapy group helping the same types of people he used to lock up.

need

He admitted needing four years of therapy to get over their 10-year marriage.

Most of us need financial therapy .

In present-day western society, most patients will need some dietary therapy and postural correction.

Ted said he'd go fishing if he needed therapy .

Respiratory function is usually decreased by tissue oedema, and some patients may therefore need oxygen therapy .

receive

And while they are on the treatment table, Ibrox will also receive intensive therapy to ensure the game proceeds.

The women also receive individual and group therapy .

No patient received any therapy directed at the central nervous system after the first 1 3 years of therapy.

Claire was born prematurely, received surfactants and oxygen therapy for two days, and made satisfactory progress.

The rate of stroke in high-risk cardiac surgery patients receiving aprotinin therapy is lower than would be anticipated.

She receives massage therapy on the leg after every workout.

Patients receiving bright-light therapy need not look directly into the light.

In 1924 a friend told him that another polio victim had received helpful therapy from warm mineral water in the South.

recommend

Homoeopathy is the exception and is recommended as an alternative therapy should treatment with essential oils and herbs be only partially effective.

The authors recommend against routine Pharmacologic therapy in Patients with these subsets of primary hyperuricemia for several reasons.

As a result, some alternative therapists recommend mega- vitamin therapy .

The panel recommended 12 months of therapy , rather than the previous standard six months because studies have shown better long-term results.

The recommended guidelines for the therapy of hypophosphatemia are given in Table 3-7.

The dosage recommended for vitamin D therapy must be viewed as a general guideline.

Barbiturates are no longer a recommended form of drug therapy for insomnia.

require

Thus many of the proteins that are required in human therapy have to be made in animal tissues.

This aspect of the disease process usually requires no therapy , therefore.

For patients with complicated infarctions requiring intensive insulin therapy the recovery phase will be heralded by a diminishing insulin requirement.

Unfortunately, all that training also culminated in severe tendinitis, requiring months of physical therapy .

start

It can sometimes be difficult to decide when to start antibiotic therapy .

Marthe had started therapy in my office in the outpatient clinic where I worked.

I started therapy because of a lot of unresolved conflicts in my childhood.

She said he had not shown any symptoms for some time but had recently started taking combination therapy drugs.

If the test proves successful, it may enable physicians to start therapy for the condition before the diabetes causes irreparable damage.

Since she had started going to therapy , these notes had got longer and more articulate.

undergo

But I was not of that age, had no desire to learn programming languages, and had undergone game aversion therapy .

The first, Thomas F.. Eagleton, was axed after it was disclosed he had undergone electric shock therapy for depression.

Thomas Eagleton of Missouri as his running mate, then replaced him after discovering that Eagleton had undergone electroshock therapy for depression.

She attempted suicide in 1953, after undergoing electroconvulsive therapy .

He also undergoes therapy three times a week.

Griffin, who has already spent years undergoing alcohol-abuse therapy , stood meekly as the sentence was read.

use

Health outcomes associated with antihypertensive therapies used as first line therapies: a systematic review and a meta-analysis.

Such cases are currently treated using laser therapy .

His theories are used in one-to-one therapy , group therapy, training and organisations.

In a collection of 446 patients angioplasty was used as the only therapy to open the vessel.

But what is used in sub-lingual therapy is industrial alcohol.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

A full recovery will require years of physical therapy .

Don underwent months of physical therapy after the accident.

He's been in therapy for years, but he's still got a big self-esteem problem.

The therapy involves getting the patient to tell the doctor about their early childhood.

This child is clearly very disturbed emotionally and may require long-term therapy .

Will she need to have speech therapy ?

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Anyone who has actually experienced acupuncture, or several other complementary therapies, will agree on this.

Bright-light therapy is used as a surrogate for sunshine.

Bright-light therapy may be the answer.

But that's been a sort of therapy .

Is the discredited regression therapy still taught and used in any homes and, if so, will he make it illegal?

Oral therapy is a practical means of correcting or preventing hypomagnesemia, particularly in patients with only mild deficits.

Personal Training Biofeedback-This therapy is often utilized in headache and pain treatment.

Psychotherapy and group therapy - as an out-patient or in-patient - may also be prescribed.

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