Can Nature Images Reduce Pain in Patients?
Ellen Vincent was a researcher at Clemson’s School of Agricultural, Forest and Environmental Sciences. She conducted a pilot project on Clemson Students to measure the amount of pain experienced when they put their hands in ice water while looking at certain images. They found students had the least pain while looking at the images depicting...
Healing Images Welcomes Bren Blade
Healing Images welcomes Bren Slade to our photographic family. Bren has been a professional photographer for over 20 years and recently found her true love and passion in whimsical illustrated children's photography, capturing the world of childhood imagination. An MA candidate at Falmouth University her current project highlights children...
Healing Images Welcomes New Photographer Brenda Tharp
Healing Images welcomes a new photographer to the family! Brenda Tharp is an award-winning photographer, writer, passionate workshop and tour leader, and inspirational speaker. She lives in Sonoma County, CA. Her fine art photographs are in private collections across the USA. She cares deeply about the environment and using her photography to...
Improving the Patient Experience with Relaxing Images
In a recent white paper in the Harvard Business Review, Improving The Patient Experience, Dr. Ralph Wiegner found that there are many ways to improve the patient experience. One in particular was to improve a patients surroundings when they are receiving care. This can range from providing more attractively designed...
The Benefits of Nature in Hospitals
Neurobiophilia - the science of how nature engages the brain. Psychologists are finding how nature in hospital rooms increase healing rates and find patients request less pain medication. Tierne Thys explains her great theory here in a short six minute TED talk - check it out! ...