Conversations in Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Insights and Perspectives from Leading PractitionersBased on 27 interviews with leading experts in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), Conversations in Complementary and Alternative Medicine offers valuable insights and advice on a variety of CAM modalities, including acupuncture, chiropractic, massage therapy, and herbal medicine. Each contributor identifies and answers the most commonly asked questions in their particular CAM specialty, including questions on practice, education, and research issues, and provides readers with important tools for identifying evidence-based practice that can form research questions for future CAM studies. Conversations in Complementary and Alternative Medicine is an essential resource for anyone contemplating a career in CAM or already working in the field. |
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Biofeedback | 95 |
Music Therapy and the Effects of Music | 115 |
Spirituality and Health | 133 |
Chiropractic Medicine | 155 |
Acupuncture Acupuncture and Acupressure | 177 |
Reiki | 195 |
Therapeutic Touch | 209 |
Reflexology | 227 |
Integrating Clinical Practice with | 247 |
Index | 269 |
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Strana 11 - Manipulative and body-based methods in CAM are based on manipulation and/or movement of one or more parts of the body. Some examples include chiropractic or osteopathic manipulation, and massage. Energy therapies involve the use of energy fields. They are of two types: 1 Biofield therapies are intended to affect energy fields that purportedly surround and penetrate the human body.
Strana 11 - Alternative medical systems are built upon complete systems of theory and practice. Often, these systems have evolved apart from and earlier than the conventional medical approach used in the United States.
Strana 11 - Biologically based therapies in CAM use substances found in nature, such as herbs, foods, and vitamins. Some examples include dietary supplements, herbal products, and the use of other so-called natural but as yet scientifically unproven therapies (for example, using shark cartilage to treat cancer).
Strana 11 - The existence of such fields has not yet been scientifically proven. Some forms of energy therapy manipulate biofields by applying pressure and/or manipulating the body by placing the hands in, or through, these fields. Examples include Qi Gong, Reiki, and Therapeutic Touch.
Strana 182 - Institute (its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the...
Strana 10 - Alternative medicine is used in place of conventional medicine. An example of an alternative therapy is using a special diet to treat cancer instead of undergoing surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy that has been recommended by a conventional doctor. (NCCAM, 2004) The House of Lords...
Strana 11 - Mind-body medicine uses a variety of techniques designed to enhance the mind's capacity to affect bodily function and symptoms. Some techniques that were considered CAM in the past have become mainstream (for example, patient-support groups and cognitive-behavioral therapy).
Strana 112 - Montgomery GH, DuHamel KN, Redd WH. A meta-analysis of hypnotically induced analgesia: how effective is hypnosis?
Strana 11 - CAM in the past have become mainstream techniques (for example, patient support groups and cognitive-behavioral therapy). Other mind-body techniques are still considered CAM, including meditation, prayer, mental healing, and therapies that use creative outlets such as art, music, or dance.
Bibliografické informácie
| Názov | Conversations in Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Insights and Perspectives from Leading Practitioners |
| Autor | Norma G. Cuellar |
| Redaktor | Norma G. Cuellar |
| Vydanie | ilustrované |
| Vydavateľ | Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2006 |
| Kód ISBN | 0763738883, 9780763738884 |
| Dĺžka | 282 strán (strany) |
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