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The Holmes and Rahe Stress Scale: Understanding the Impact of Long-term Stress
How much stress are you under? And is it enough to make you ill? More commonly known as the Holmes and Rahe Stress Scale, this is a self-asse ...
Episode 30 - The Great Annual Examen
Each year we hear about New Year’s Resolutions – we make plans to lose weight, become more organized, be on time more. All great goals, but how man ...
Cast and Splint Care
Care and management: Walking in your foot or leg cast; Itching skin; Cast odor; How to keep your cast or splint dry; Pain management
...The Great Annual Examen: Reflecting Back and Praying Forward
For hundreds of years, Christians have taken the time to examine their lives by reflecting backwards: what went well and what went, well… not so we ...
Crutch Training | Instructions on How to Use Crutches
Step-by-step guide on how to set up crutches, walk with crutches, get up from a seated position, sit down, go upstairs and downstairs.
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Five Benefits of Vacation
There are at least five benefits of taking time off and being away. I’m talking about the wonderful deposits we place into our souls when we take a ...
Closer to the Truth about Current Missionary Attrition: An Initial Analysis of Results
For those of you who participated in or have been following the missionary attrition study from last fall, this is the post that you have been wait ...
Faith-Based Resources for Chronic Pain, Disability, Depression, and other forms of Suffering
A list of faith-based books, organizations, and websites for those dealing with chronic pain, disability, depression, and other forms of suffering. ...
Family Factors in Missionary Attrition
In this blog post, Andrea Sears conducts a further analysis of the results of a "returned misisonary" survey, examining how family factors inf ...
Dutch medical terms and body parts in Dutch
Lost for words while visiting a Dutch-speaking doctor? Don't worry; consult this extensive list of Dutch medical terms next time you visit a clinic ...
Adverse Outcomes to Early Middle Age Linked With Childhood Residential Mobility
Introduction: Links between childhood residential mobility and multiple adverse outcomes through to maturity, and effect modification of these asso ...