CAM And Integrative Health

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Complementary Therapies

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Used together with conventional treatment recommended by a person’s health care provider

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What does Complementary therapies include

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Therapeutic touch , contain diagnostic and therapeutic methods that require special training

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Integrative therapy

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Interventions provided by a licensed health care provider

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Alternative therapies are:

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• Exercise
• Chiropractic
• herb supplements

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Holistic nursing

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treats the mind-body-spirit of the patient, using therapies and guided imagery

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Integrative nursing

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a way being knowing

doing that advances the health and well-being of persons, families, and communities through caring-healing relationships

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Relaxation Therapy

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Thoughts and feelings influence the production of chemicals that circulate throughout the body and convey messages via cells to various systems within the body.

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Complication applications of Relaxation Therapy

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• Lower blood pressure
• heart rate
• decrease muscle tension
• improve well-being
• reduce symptom distress in persons experiencing a variety of situations from medical treatment

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Limitations of relaxation therapy

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The physiological and psychological status of an individual

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Medication and breathing

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An activity that limits stimulus input by directing attention to a single unchanging and repetitive stimulus so that the person is able to become more aware of self.
Relaxing of the mind

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Clinical application of medication and breathing

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Reduce hypertensive risk 
Reduce systolic and diastolic pressures 
Reduces relapse in alcohol treatment programs 
Increase productivity
Improve mood

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Limitations of medication

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Can be contraindicated for some people

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Imagery

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Is a body therapy that uses the conscious mind to create mental images to stimulate physical changes in the body, improve perceived well being, and/or enhance self-awareness.

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Limitations of imagery

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Increases anxiety and sometimes occur when imagery us used to treat post traumatic stress disorders and social anxiety disorders. Closely monitor patients when using therapy.

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Biofeedback

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Is a mind body technique that uses instruments to teach self regulation and voluntary self control over specific physiological responses.

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Biofeedback clinical application

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Helpful in stroke recovery, smoking cessation, attention deficit/ hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), epilepsy, headache disorder, variety of gastrointestinal and urinary tract disorders

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Limitations of biofeedback

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Many patients have several precautions, particularly in those which psychological or neurological conditions

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Traditional Chinese Medicine

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Is a whole system of medicine that begun as an ethic healing system. Views health as “life in balance”, which manifests as lustrous hair, radiant complex action, engaged interactions.

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Clinical application of Traditional Chinese medication

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Helpful in treating fibromyalgia and in addressing symptoms associated with menopause. Treatment components of TCM such as acupuncture and herbal therapies.

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Limitations of traditional Chinese medicine

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Concerns about safety of Chinese herbal treatments. Acupuncture has to have doctors who are certified.

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Acupuncture

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An ancient practice shared by other asian systems of care. viewed as a mind-body therapy and referred to as medical acupuncture.

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Acupuncture clinical applications

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Modifies the body’s response to pain and how pain is processed by central neural pathways and cerebral function. Effective for low back pain, myofascial pain, hot flashed, simple and migraine headaches, osteoarthritis, plantar heel pain and chronic shoulder pain.

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Limitation of acupuncture

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• Needle complications
• infections
• broken needles
• puncture of an internal organ
• bleeding
• fainting

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Therapeutic touch

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Affects energy fields that surround and penetrate the human body with conscious intent to help or heal

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Therapeutic touch clinical application

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Dementia, trauma, anxiety during acute and chronic illnesses

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therapeutic touch limitations

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May be contraindicated in certain patient populations.

example: those who have been physically abused or have psychiatric disorders.

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Chiropractic

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Therapy manipulative or body-based therapy. Aims to normalize the relationship between structure and function by a serious of manipulations

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Chiropractic Clinical Application

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Restoring structural and functional imbalance

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Chiropractic Limitations

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Does not treat several diseases or conditions with manipulations. bone and joint require pharmaceutical or surgical intervention

Question 30

Natural Products and Herbal Therapies

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Oldest medicine known to man. Are a prominent part of health care amount indigenous population worldwide.

Question 31

What patient conditions due the college of Physicians recommended these therapies and why?

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The American college of physicians issued new clinical practices guideline and the management of acute,subacute, and chronic low back pain in 2017, recommending the use of non pharmacological intervention that include tai, chi, yoga, and other min/body techniques.