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RSI has produced a video explaining how to avoid problems and/or ailments affecting the muscles and joints (repetitive strain injuries)

Did you know that…

- prolonged use of a mouse can lead to pains in your arm (wrist, elbow, shoulder)?

- Working at a computer can cause neck pain?

- Sitting in the same position for long periods can be a factor in causing back ache?

Ailments affecting the muscles and joints are becoming increasingly common.

Version: Italian  |  Length: 7'30''  |  Year of production: 2010

HOMEOPATHY UNDER THE LENS
Is homeopathy a valid alternative to traditional medicine? Increased confidence in homeopathic cures has brought about the question of health insurance cost coverage for this kind of treatment.

Version: Italian  |  Length: 27'  |  Year of production: 2004
Culture and care
Every culture has its own ways of comprehending life, health, diseases and their treatment. With the current globalising trend, the world is becoming progressively smaller, and instances where several cultures cohabit in the same geographical area are not unusual, thus different ways of perceiving health, disease and cures are brought together.

Version: Italian  |  Length: 56'  |  Year of production: 2002
In vino salus - the winetherapy
Black grape baths, Merlot compresses, Sauvignon massage… these are only some of the treatments for fighting stress and postponing the ageing process being offered by the only facility in the world devoted to wine therapy.

Version: Italian  |  Length: 25'  |  Year of production: 2001
Local healers
They are little known and all the more intriguing as they are secretive: they are the local healers. Do they still exist? What diseases do they heal and how do they work? Has modern civilisation influenced their techniques or have these remained unchanged? The reporters have met healers who treat herpes and other diseases, as well as those who fix sprains, herbals practitioners, dowsers, etc.

Version: Italian, German  |  Length: 46'  |  Year of production: 1999
The fountain of youth
The programme reveals the relationship with our bodies and what we do, or don't do, to keep ourselves in shape, to keep ourselves young in a society where much is based on physical appearance.

Version: Italian, Spanish  |  Length: 48'  |  Year of production: 1998
Is medicine an exact science?
The patients are becoming intolerant towards certain forms of bureaucracy and authoritativeness coming from the official medicine. Twenty years ago, in a very famous lecture about the limits of the medicine, Ivan Illich warned a crowd of eight hundred among doctors and agents of the most important pharmaceutic industries in the world by saying: “Today medicine applies a method of engineering towards the human body.

Version: Italian  |  Length: 45'  |  Year of production: 1995
Vital energy
Many people turn to so-called alternative medicine, what is it exactly, and how does it work? The documentary starts by investigating the present state of scientific knowledge which seems to validate the ancient traditions passed down, from generation to generation, over thousands of years.

Version: Italian, French, German  |  Length: 50'  |  Year of production: 1994
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