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.