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ALTERNATIVE AND COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES

Health Care on the Internet, 1996
Abstract Quackwatch is the Web site created and maintained by Stephen Barrett, MD, a retired psychiatrist and current vice-president of the National Council Against Health Fraud. The site displays an obvious bias against all forms of alternative medicine, but the information on, and links to, the traditional medical sites are very thorough and ...
Esther Y. Dell, Gretchen H. Moyer
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Pain and Complementary Therapies

Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America, 2017
Treatment of both acute and chronic pain typically involves a combination of pharmacologic and provider-based interventions, which is effective for some patients but not for others. Use of pain medications, especially repeated and frequent usage, involves the risk of adverse reactions, overuse, and dependency.
T. Michelle Robertson, Amy S. Hamlin
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Complementary and alternative therapies

Urologic Clinics of North America, 2003
Patients with prostate cancer increasingly use complementary and alternative therapies. A well-informed oncologist can guide patients to use such treatments to maximize their benefits and reduce the risk of harm. Patients should be dissuaded from using alternative therapies instead of mainstream care to treat cancer.
Andrew J. Vickers, Barrie R. Cassileth
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Shamanism and complementary therapy

Complementary Therapies in Nursing and Midwifery, 1997
Shamanism is an ancient tradition which may offer profound insights into the healing process and to our whole understanding of health. It has an extensive historical and geographical distribution, and may contain elements essential to our understanding of humanity.
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Complementary Therapies for Depression

Archives of General Psychiatry, 1998
Depression is one of the most common reasons for using complementary and alternative therapies. The aim of this article is to provide an overview of the evidence available on the treatment of depression with complementary therapies. Systematic literature searches were performed using several databases, reference list searching, and inquiry to ...
Ernst, Edzard, Rand, Julia I., Stevinson, Clare   +2 more
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Complementary therapies and the M25

Complementary Therapies in Nursing and Midwifery, 2000
COMMENT: Midwives frequently meet mothers wishing to use complementary therapies (CTs) and natural remedies (NRs), but many answer querieswithout adequate knowledge. My concerns about CTs in pregnancy are extensively documented elsewhere, but the popularity of NRs highlights an urgent need to raise midwives’ awareness of relevant accountability issues.
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Complementary Psychological Therapies [PDF]

, 2013
When we really feel unwell, we should seek the advice of a good and scientifically trained doctor. The doctor will examine us, and, if suspicious of a serious illness, we will be requested to undergo various examinations. The tests may finally tell that we have cancer. What to do next?
Aldo Poiani, Marisa Cordella
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Alternative and complementary therapies for the menopause

Maturitas, 2010
The use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) among menopausal women has increased in the last years. This review examines the evidence from systematic reviews, RCTs and epidemiological studies of CAM in the treatment of menopausal symptoms.
BORRELLI, FRANCESCA, E. Ernst
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Complementary therapies and diabetes

Complementary Therapies in Nursing and Midwifery, 2003
There is increasing recognition that people with diabetes use a range of complementary therapies (CT), for a number of conditions, but do not always inform their conventional health practitioners about their use. Controlling blood glucose levels in people with diabetes is important to reduce the consequent metabolic abnormalities and symptoms and the ...
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Complementary therapies in Iceland

Complementary Therapies in Nursing and Midwifery, 1997
In general, complementary health is blossoming in Iceland, although, as in other countries, many people do not realize the full potential of the different therapies in terms of the range of ailments that can be treated. Reflexology and other types of massage are probably the most popular therapies, but there is a general awareness of herbal medicine ...
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