Cervical and Elbow Pain Relief

Images of patients experiencing neck and elbow pain, with medical consultations about treatment and care in various healthcare settings.

Reportage on a midwife in Lyon, France during a eutony session. Eutony is a method which helps develop body-consciousness. Working with the midwife, from the second term of pregnancy on, helps the future mother to better feel her body, which is changing from day to day. The three main axes of work are: being conscious of ones skin and its limits, feeling contained to better contain, being aware of the skeleton that carries us (we carry better when we feel supported) and searching for the bodys axis, which is changing every day during pregnancy. This method ensures a more harmonious and physiological pregnancy.

Woman suffering from cervical pain.

Reportage on a midwife practice in Lyon, France during antenatal classes. This session is for both future and new mothers, and deals with breast feeding.

Reportage in the pediatric emergency unit in a hospital in Haute-Savoie, France. A doctor and nurse.

Patient suffering from elbow pain.

Reportage on a haptonomy professional. Prenatal haptonomy session with a couple in the 7th month of pregnancy.

Reportage on a midwife practice in Lyon, France during antenatal classes. Future mothers learn to appreciate muscle relaxation.

Liver Meridian Chakra Clearing Tapping Technique, EFT or Emotional Freedom Technique . Liver Meridian Chakra Clearing Tapping Technique, EFT or Emotional Freedom Technique.

Reportage in the maternity ward of Saint Maurice hospital. Antenatal class.

Reportage on a midwife in Lyon, France during a eutony session. Eutony is a method which helps develop body-consciousness. Working with the midwife, from the second term of pregnancy on, helps the future mother to better feel her body, which is changing from day to day. The three main axes of work are: being conscious of ones skin and its limits, feeling contained to better contain, being aware of the skeleton that carries us (we carry better when we feel supported) and searching for the bodys axis, which is changing every day during pregnancy. This method ensures a more harmonious and physiological pregnancy.

Sophrology session in a midwifes practice in Ham, France. Antenatal class for two women who are more than 8 months pregnant.

Reportage on a haptonomy professional. Prenatal haptonomy session with a couple in the 8th month of pregnancy. The couple tries out positions for the day of the birth.

The midwifes home visit is becoming increasingly important for preventive and after-care during the birth of a child. The recovery and health of the mother and her newborn, but also daily routines such as bathing, changing and carrying the infant, useful advice for mother and father as well as training through gymnastics for the mother after the birth, as well as in front of, are a constant programme of the home visit. Home births, however, are rather rare today, DEU, Germany, Europe

Home sophrology session. Lying sophronisation.

Reportage on an independent midwife during post-partum home visits. The midwife weighs the newborn baby.

Obese Woman with fat upset about her belly. Overweight woman touching his fat belly and want to lose weight. Fat woman worried about weight diet lifestyle

Reportage at CENAS, a Swiss sleep centre. A patient fitted out with sensors in order to undergo a polysomnography. Polysomnography is a test that records a complete nights sleep. The test involves monitoring various physiological variables in order to quantify and qualify sleep disorders.

Report on blood donation at the EFS of Saint Louis Hospital in Paris. Welcoming the donor with a pre-donation questionnaire in order to prepare for the medical interview.

disabled woman having a hard time reaching the books

Sophrology session in a midwifes practice in Ham, France. Antenatal class for two women who are more than 8 months pregnant.

Woman doctor adjusting patients knee

A woman trying to close an overflowing suitcase

Reportage on a haptonomy professional. Prenatal haptonomy session with a couple in the 6th month of pregnancy.

Photo essay at the department of oncology of the Diaconesses hospital in Paris, France. Outpatient hospital, chemotherapy session.

Woman, nurse or caregiver with clothes on bed for assisted living, cleaning or tidy space at retirement or old age home. Female person, medical assistant or volunteer in bedroom for patient help

Woman receiving a Thai massage to her feet by a therapist.

In a private practice office of a psychiatrist, a female patient is in a therapy session.

Woman in sun and shadows in labor in hosptial

Light therapy woman

Overweight woman measuring her waist with a tape measure

Masked pedicurist does pedicure at home for plus size woman

Photo essay on a healer, magnetizer, dowser.

Reportage in a Feldenkrais method practice. Individual session for dancers from the Young Ballet Higher National Conservatory for Music and Dance in Lyon, France. The Feldenkrais method is a global somatic education method which improves and teaches ease and fluidity in body movement. Exploration of movement initially enables the person to gently neutralize certain automatic reflexes that can cause discomfort or stiffness. This leads to new, more appropriate sensori-motor pathways. Harmonious and efficient movements that rely on less effort improve body use.

Reportage in a physiotherapy practice in Paris, France. A pilates session run by a specialised physiotherapist.

Forensic investigator at the crime scene investigating woman mur. Forensic investigator at the crime scene investigating woman murder. Forensic investigator at the crime scene investigating woman mur

Doctor taking a patient's pulse.

Reportage on an independent midwife during post-partum home visits. The midwife weighs the newborn baby.

portrait of podiatrist with patient

Doctor examining patient's back.

Consultation of a woman during her 4th pregnancy due to insomnia.

Doctor weighing young girl on scales

murder, kill and people concept - criminal or murderer with knife in blood and dead woman body lying on floor at crime scene. criminal with knife and dead body at crime scene

Liberal country nurse at a patient's home for an intramuscular injection of ceftriaxone, antibacterial antibiotics for a urinary tract infection.

trainer helping woman recovering after covid

the rotunda, pupil referral unit, slough.

Reportage on an independent nurse in Haute-Savoie, France. Aline travels round her small mountain town every day to meet her patients. She also has a practice in town that she shares with two other colleagues. Aline treats a patient suffering from leg ulcers.

Reportage in a Feldenkrais method practice. Individual session for dancers from the Young Ballet Higher National Conservatory for Music and Dance in Lyon, France. The Feldenkrais method is a global somatic education method which improves and teaches ease and fluidity in body movement. Exploration of movement initially enables the person to gently neutralize certain automatic reflexes that can cause discomfort or stiffness. This leads to new, more appropriate sensori-motor pathways. Harmonious and efficient movements that rely on less effort improve body use.

Reportage on a midwife in Lyon, France. Weighing a 7-day old baby in a baby scale bag.

Reportage in a physiotherapy practice in Paris, France. A pilates session run by a specialised physiotherapist.

Reportage on a midwife practice in Lyon, France during antenatal classes. Future mothers discover positions enabling the relaxation and opening of the pelvis.

Physiotherapist, teacher of the Alexander technique guiding a patient through a relaxation exercise in the treatment room

Expectant mother timing her contractions while sitting on couch at home

Home sophrology session. Hands on the ribs : chest expansion exercise.

Spa and massage, Thai massage and spa for healing and relaxation .. Spa and massage, Thai massage and spa for healing and relaxation.

Report from a therapist specializing in traditional Chinese medicine. The application of cupping has the effect of massaging the connective tissue and improving the vascularization of the skin and muscle layers. This technique thus strengthens the flow of blood, lymph, metabolic exchanges and the immune system.

woman with face mask recovering from coronavirus

The Turbans Gallery : Maryline psychologist and wigmaker. Maryline, psychologist and wigmaker in Paris receives cancer patients following a chemotherapy and whose hair are falling down. She provides women with aesthetic solutions during the treatment. Maryline has settled her salon in her apartment to receive the women in intimacy.

$Ophthalmology office. Masked patient and doctor - Covid 19 in consultation. Refractive telescope, slit lamp, fundus, AMD, diabetes of the eye, retinal scanner, Volk lens, Cover test, glasses, blur. Old person.$

Reportage in a part-time therapeutic care centre (CATTP) attached to the Léman hospitals in Haute-Savoie, France. The CATTP deals with looking after, prevention, psychiatric and psychotherapeutic care of stabilised patients, through activities that favour rehabilitation and reinsertion. Cookery lesson.

Report on the association Les Clowns de l'Espoir, which works in the pediatric hematology service of the Jeanne de Flandre hospital in Lille.

Frustrated adult attending therapy session with male counselor

Reportage on a midwife in Lyon, France during a eutony session. Eutony is a method which helps develop body-consciousness. Working with the midwife, from the second term of pregnancy on, helps the future mother to better feel her body, which is changing from day to day. The three main axes of work are: being conscious of ones skin and its limits, feeling contained to better contain, being aware of the skeleton that carries us (we carry better when we feel supported) and searching for the bodys axis, which is changing every day during pregnancy. This method ensures a more harmonious and physiological pregnancy.

Young patient visiting psychologist for therapy

Reportage on a midwife in Lyon, France during antenatal classes for couples. Discovering and working on positions that will help ease the physiological birth, depending on the various stages of labour, until the baby is born. The role of the partner is vital, psychologically as much as physically.

Woman suffering from abdominal pain.

Full length of woman ironing shirt on board in room at home

Reportage on the Jeunes Pousses, a follow-up care and pneumo-pediatric rehabilitation unit specialising in climate therapy for asthma. The centre is located in Briançon, Frances highest town, which is part of WHOs Healthy Cities programme. At this altitude the oxygen partial pressure is reduced which has a positive effect on the cardio-vascular system. The concentration of allergens is also reduced. Briançon is one of the top places for high-altitude climate therapy due to its hours of sunlight, almost total lack of fog, its very low hygrometry, its almost total lack of dust mites, the scarcity of damp, its short pollen season and a very low levels of pollution. Romane, 12, suffers from asthma and comes from Lyon. She arrived at the Jeunes Pousses this year. Since she arrived her illness has stabilised.

Woman touching her sore knee

Report from a therapist specializing in traditional Chinese medicine. The application of cupping has the effect of massaging the connective tissue and improving the vascularization of the skin and muscle layers. This technique thus strengthens the flow of blood, lymph, metabolic exchanges and the immune system.

Liberal nurse visiting an elderly person. Care of legs and small wounds.

Medico-psychiatric unit for teenagers and young adults. This is a place for verbal, emotional and body expression of patient's psychic suffering. Contractual short-term hospitalization aims at monitoring and preventing crisis such as suicidal behaviour, depression, eating disorder, alcoholism, phobia, etc. Here, a patient in her room. Psychiatry unit managed by Dr Rachel Bocher, Nantes university hospital, France.

Report from a therapist specializing in traditional Chinese medicine. The application of cupping has the effect of massaging the connective tissue and improving the vascularization of the skin and muscle layers. This technique thus strengthens the flow of blood, lymph, metabolic exchanges and the immune system.

Reportage in the oncology department of a day hospital in France. Auxiliary nurse, Marie-Cécile, works here three days a week as a hospital beautician. She provides beauty treatment to women with cancer and solutions to cope with the side effects of cancer treatments. These moments are conducive to one-to-one conversations. She gives a patient beauty treatment during a chemotherapy session.

60 years old patient leaving his general practioner after medical consultation.

First aid training courses given by the French Red Cross.

Reportage on the daily life of Manuella, a 13-year old teenager who has type 1 diabetes. She was diagnosed when she was 9. She has a glucose sensor and insulin pump. The glucose sensor enables Manuella to check blood sugar levels regularly and easily, by scanning with the device. The insulin pump, controlled by another device, gives Manuella insulin throughout the day. Thanks to this device, she can add a bolus of insulin depending on her diet. At high school she has to cope with controlling her blood sugar levels and administering insulin herself. During her sports lesson her pump developed a problem. She goes to the infirmary to set up a new pump. She fills the new pump with insulin.

Young woman putting water bottle in locker at gym’s changing room

Home sophrology session. Seated sophronisation.

Home sophrology session. Prana.

Sisters talking to each other after applying face pack on their faces.

Masked pedicurist does pedicure at home for plus size woman

Man attaching leg prosthesis

woman recovering after having covid

Balance, medical and window with old woman and walking stick in bedroom for wellness, retirement and healthcare. Depression, mental health and nursing home with patient with a disability for support

Reportage on a midwife in Lyon, France. Post-partum abdominal and pelvic floor group rehabilitation session. These exercises enable the women to feel their pelvic floor and become aware of its volume and elasticity in order to strengthen it. New born babies are welcome at these sessions.

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Reportage on a midwife practice in Lyon, France during antenatal classes. This session is for both future and new mothers, and deals with breast feeding.

Photo essay at the department of oncology of the Diaconesses hospital in Paris, France. Outpatient hospital, chemotherapy. A psychologist-wigmaker helps the patients to find aesthetics solutions at the time of the hair loss.

Reportage in a physiotherapy practice in Paris, France. A pilates session run by a specialised physiotherapist.

Teenager physical therapy session with a physiotherapist.

Reportage in an independent midwife practice in Ham, in the Somme region of France, during home visits. Post-partum visit : the midwife weighs the newborn baby.

Toxic household cleaning products.

Diverse wellness: Hispanic chiropractor, patient adjustment

Reportage on a haptonomy professional. Prenatal haptonomy session with a couple in the 7th month of pregnancy.

Reportage on a woman suffering from anorexia. Christel, 32, has suffered from anorexia for 2 years. Her body mass index (BMI) is 16.7 and is extremely thin. Sometimes she weighs herself up to ten times a day.

Obesity care and treatment center for children and teenagers , "Les Terrasses", Niort France. Here psychomotricity session.

Reportage on a midwife practice in Lyon, France during antenatal classes. This session is for both future and new mothers, and deals with breast feeding.

Photo essay on the Whole Body Cryotherapy at INSEP (National institute of sport) in France. Whole Body Cryotherapy is the stimulating use of extremely low temperatures below minus 110°C. The therapy stimulates the temperature receptors in the skin to communicate with the brain. The brain then transmits messages throughout the body causing the peripheral blood vessels to constrict. The enhanced blood supply that Whole Body Cryotherapy stimulates increases the oxygen and nutrient supply to areas that need revitalising. Whole Body Cryotherapy causes inhibition of inflammation which results in a reduction of pain and swelling. This reduction in pain and swelling improves joint function which enables therapists to progress treatment quicker and results in an overall sooner return to play. It helps the body recover after intense exercise by flushing out the muscles. Whole Body Cryotherapy can also be used as part of a training programme to enhance sporting performance. It increases muscular

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