When an occupational therapist sometimes moves an Alzheimer's patient's arm or massages a certain spot, memories will flow. What if years of stress leading to mental illness and emotional problems can also lead to Alzheimer’s?
Occupational therapist and acupuncturist, Deborah Barham, spent sixteen years observing and compiling her conclusions. Although advances in the cause and cure of Alzheimer’s are expected from researchers and neurologists, how often has a detail found via an unconventional channel, lead to a breakthrough? We’ve read of researchers making a major discovery while searching for something else. The discovery of penicillin is one example.
Barham’s work addressing stress and the body’s emotional memory might add that one component to an open-minded researcher’s work that may give us a clue to advance the science of this devastating disease.
After all, it doesn’t take much for us to realize that our world is growing increasingly complex and stressful at the same time. While we have gadgets to buy us more leisure time; instead of washing clothes by hand at the side of the river, we now use the time to reply to stay connected online, keep up with more information in one-hundred years than all the time humanity has existed on earth!
For more information read the article at the Hickory Record.
When an occupational therapist sometimes moves an Alzheimer's patient's arm or massages a certain spot, memories will flow. What if years of stress leading to mental illness and emotional problems can also lead to Alzheimer’s?
Occupational therapist and acupuncturist, Deborah Barham, spent sixteen years observing and compiling her conclusions. Although advances in the cause and cure of Alzheimer’s are expected from researchers and neurologists, how often has a detail found via an unconventional channel, lead to a breakthrough? We’ve read of researchers making a major discovery while searching for something else. The discovery of penicillin is one example.
Barham’s work addressing stress and the body’s emotional memory might add that one component to an open-minded researcher’s work that may give us a clue to advance the science of this devastating disease.
After all, it doesn’t take much for us to realize that our world is growing increasingly complex and stressful at the same time. While we have gadgets to buy us more leisure time; instead of washing clothes by hand at the side of the river, we now use the time to reply to stay connected online, keep up with more information in one-hundred years than all the time humanity has existed on earth!
For more information read the article at the Hickory Record.
Brenda Avadian, MA
Founder, TheCaregiversVoice.com