Therapy
The English Wiktionary has a dictionary definition (meanings of a word) for: therapy
Therapy, in the medical field also called treatment, is what people do to try to solve or care for a health problem, physical or mental. When a person is ill or injured, a doctor may make a medical diagnosis and then recommend a therapy to try to make the person well. The therapy can be, for example, medications (drugs), surgery or a change of diet. Therapy may be offered at work to help people with stress.[1]
A person who does therapy as a job is called a therapist. There are many kinds of therapists.[2] for example:
Therapeutic effects
[change | change source]Medical treatments may have four results:
- No effect at all
- Placebo effect
- A therapeutic effect is a good result
- An adverse effect is a bad result
- A side-effect or adverse reaction[3] is an unwanted effect from therapy. For example, taking medications as tablets or injections may cause many sorts of side-effects. Examples are headaches, nausea, rash, constipation, blurred vision and others. Radiotherapy can also cause side effects of nausea, rash on the skin, and vomiting, for example
Related pages
[change | change source]References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Therapy at work: banks and law firms among those offering counselling as staff perk". Financial Times. 2023-03-12. Retrieved 2023-03-13.
- ↑ "Physical therapist Jobs". Alternative Hub. Archived from the original on 3 May 2019. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
- ↑ Chubbyemu (2026-01-31), A woman took a friend's Ozempic and her entire gut was cooked, retrieved 2026-03-26
Other websites
[change | change source]- "Chapter Nine of the Book of Medicine Dedicated to Mansur, with the Commentary of Sillanus de Nigris"[permanent dead link] is an old book written in Latin. It was written in 1483. It has parts about therapy in it.
