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  2. Trendelenburg position - Wikipedia

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    In the Trendelenburg position (/ ˈ t r ɛ n d əl ən b ɜːr ɡ /), the body is lain supine, or flat on the back on a 15–30 degree incline with the feet elevated above the head. [1] The reverse Trendelenburg position, similarly, places the body supine on an incline but with the head now being elevated. The Trendelenburg position is used in ...

  3. Surgical positions - Wikipedia

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    A surgical fracture table enables the patient to be placed in the following positions: Supine position The most common surgical position. The patient lies with back flat on operating room bed. [1] [2] [3] Trendelenburg position Same as supine position but the upper torso is lowered. [1] [2] Reverse Trendelenburg position

  4. Reverse psychology - Wikipedia

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    Reverse psychology is often used on children due to their high tendency to respond with reactance, a desire to restore threatened freedom of action. Questions have, however been raised about such an approach when it is more than merely instrumental, in the sense that "reverse psychology implies a clever manipulation of the misbehaving child". [5]

  5. Friedrich Trendelenburg - Wikipedia

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    Trendelenburg position, in which the patient is placed on a bed which is put into incline such that the patient's head is lower than his feet. Trendelenburg's sign: a sign of congenital dislocation of the hip. Trendelenburg's test: a test for varicose veins as well as a test to assess hip mobility. [2]

  6. Reversal theory - Wikipedia

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    Reversal theory is a structural, phenomenological theory of personality, motivation, and emotion in the field of psychology. [1] It focuses on the dynamic qualities of normal human experience to describe how a person regularly reverses between psychological states, reflecting their motivational style, the meaning they attach to a situation at a given time, and the emotions they experience.

  7. Trendelenburg's sign - Wikipedia

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    Trendelenburg's sign is found in people with weak or paralyzed abductor muscles of the hip, namely gluteus medius and gluteus minimus. [1] It is named after the German surgeon Friedrich Trendelenburg. It is often incorrectly referenced as the Trendelenburg test which is a test for vascular insufficiency in the lower extremities.

  8. Lloyd-Davies position - Wikipedia

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    Lloyd-Davies position is a medical term referring to a common position for surgical procedures involving the pelvis and lower abdomen. The majority of colorectal and pelvic surgery is conducted with the patient in the Lloyd-Davies position. It was popularised for these procedures by Oswald Lloyd-Davies working at St Marks Hospital London. [1]

  9. Boomerang effect (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    The tactic of reverse psychology, which is a deliberate exploitation of an anticipated boomerang effect, involves one's attempt of feigning a desire for an outcome opposite to that of the truly desired one, such that the prospect's resistance will work in the direction that the exploiter actually desires (e.g.,