Word: trauma
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like Cosmo Kramer--she doesn't just walk, she makes an entrance, for better or worse. This time, she flings herself onto her bed. Used to her histrionics, I'm like, "Yeah, whatever--you'll get over your latest trauma." But this time she had a problem I could identify with...
...would think that looking like the average Joe would actually be good in a film like Message in a Bottle where Costner is a man grief-ridden by the death of his beloved wife. Add to the physical ravages of this trauma a personality more wooden than Al Gore, and you've got yourself an authentic bereaved widower...
Flower-essence therapy--the use of, say, holly or five flower to treat a variety of ailments, including rage and earthquake trauma--is also increasingly popular, accounting for half of all sales at Pets Naturally, a health-food shop in Los Angeles. Massage therapy is being used to treat equilibrium problems. Michael Holloway, owner of Pet Massage Rehabilitation Services in Boca Raton, Fla., says his business, which treats pets for physical and mental problems, has grown sevenfold in the past two years. "Bodywork can allow them to be less contact phobic," he says...
Echelman said the velvet red ribbon that runsthe complete length of the sculpture is areference to our culture's way of acknowledgingthe societal trauma of the AIDS virus...
...thesis on the effects of Pilates on the spine. His aging boomer clients who grunted their way through the no-pain-no-gain workouts of the '80s are turning to the regimen as welcome therapy. Anderson has observed, for example, that knee muscles out of whack because of a trauma experienced years earlier "can be retrained and the process of degeneration significantly decreased...