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Rudolf Inderst's contribution is concerned with the comparatively new paratextual form of the video essay. Starting from the fact that games are of growing interest to cultural critics and that video essays first became popular in film criticism, Inderst's analyses of video channels prove the potential of audiovisual paratextuality for both popular and scholarly communication: »Certain systemic and technical processes which build the foundation of an audio-visual medium such as video games can be described and examined in a more nuanced wayby a sui generis show-do-not-tell approach of video essays.«

This essay takes a close look how the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) via virtual reality applications is picked up and portrayed in digital games. After all, video and computer games provide players with virtual worlds. They send players, and their characters – particularly in action games and first person shooters – into theaters of war that will be left by many soldiers suffering from PTSD after their missions. Taking CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS III (Treyarch 2015) as a leading example this article shows that the idea of a double virtual world, one with a virtual reality (VR) of therapeutical intention, not only takes the current medical status into consideration, but it sometimes also uses it for the orchestration of utopian and dystopian storylines.

Entzundungen, die weder spontan noch trotz adaquater Therapie nach Wochen, Monaten oder sogar Jahren ausheilen, im Blut nicht durch klassische Entzundungsparameter, aber durch komplexe immunologische Veranderungen ggf. typische histologische Merkmale feststellbar sind, werden als chronische Entzundungen bezeichnet. In dieser Ubersicht werden Ursachen fur das Entstehen, fur mogliche Folgen und fur die Therapie von Low-Level-Entzundungen vorgestellt: Im Vordergrund stehen die regulative Enzymtherapie und andere naturheilkundliche Therapieoptionen, insbesondere die Ordnungstherapie, das Fasten sowie die ausleitenden Verfahren als bewahrte Kombinationspartner: Als Indikationen werden dargestellt: chronische Wundheilungsstorungen, Parodontitis, Rheumatoide Arthritis sowie das Entstehen von Tumorerkrankungen (Pankreas-, Kolon-Ca.) nach chronischen Entzundungen.

SummaryDer Fall: Zustand des Patienten 3 Wochen postoperativ nach Kreuzbandruptur: Patient leidet noch unter Schwellungen und Schmerzen.

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Since more than 30 years naturopathic doctors have a high opinion of zinc preparations modulating bodies own immune system, while literature confirms zinc deficiency in patients suffering from epithelial tumours. Additionally BfR (German health authority for risks assessment) just now agreed that low zinc dosages are nearly of no risk. Examination with cells or animal studies concerning breast tumours primarily seemed to reveal some problems, but exact analyses verified the former positive experiences. Patients take special advantage from zinc because of its efficacy in reducing mucositis induced by chemo- and/or radiotherapy.