Browsing by Subject "Repair"

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    Peace, love and hope: a rural farm dwelling and labouring community's embodied knowledge of wellness and repair in an environment that continues to harm
    (2025) Conradie, Une; Levine, Susan
    Farm labouring and dwelling communities are considered among the most vulnerable populations in South Africa. The vast majority of health and wellness studies in these communities focus on the harmful social, psychological and biological impacts of historical, structural and institutional violence. What has not received sufficient attention is how farm labouring and dwelling communities resist the impacts of ongoing violence. This multimodal study engaged twenty-six participants living and working in a small rural farming community in the Cederberge in an arts-based research process to explore their embodied knowledge of wellness and repair in an environment that continues to harm. The arts-based research process was rooted in Victor Turners' adaptation of liminality to facilitate the co-creation of a research space where the research participants could be both the observers and the observed. What emerged from the participants' artworks, stories, and reflections was their insights and wisdom into wellness and repair, which mirrors contemporary discussions in Anthropology, Psychology, Neuroscience and the Applied Arts. The research participants portrayed wellness as inseparable from their relationships, emphasising their ability to communicate as a connected and loving community as the foundation for wellness. Embodied love also played a central role in how the research participants portrayed their capacity for daily repair in an environment that causes daily ruptures. By layering the research participants' art, stories and reflections with an interdisciplinary exploration of trauma, the study highlights the importance of being witnessed and bearing witness to moments of resistance and connection to build a collective capacity for repair in an environment that continues to harm.
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    Repair of Nasal Septal Perforations
    (2025-03-11) Sedaghat, Ahmad; Bleier, Benjamin
    The most common causes of nasal septal perforations are trauma, iatrogenic e.g. septoplasty, and pharmacologic e.g. intranasal corticosteroids and cocaine abuse. Other aetiologies such as vasculitis, malignancy and infection should be considered when investigating a patient when a cause is not apparent. Most septal perforations go unnoticed. The most troublesome signs and symptoms include a whistling sound, crusting and epistaxis; these are consequences of disrupttion of laminar airflow and its desiccating effect on the nasal tissues. In some cases with e.g. vasculitis or chronic picking at nasal crusts, septal perforations may grow in size and cause collapse of the dorsal or caudal supports leading to nasal deformity. Despite its varied aetiology, the common mechanism for developing a septal perforation is disruption of blood flow and devitalisation of the septum. Despite its rich blood supply in the form of Kiesselbach’s plexus, perforations most commonly involve the anterior septum; this plexus is comprised of the terminal branches of the superior labial, greater palatine and anterior ethmoidal arteries and does not tolerate vascular insults well.