Complementary and Alternative Medicine Flashcards
Conventional Medicine
MD or DO
ALlied health professions: PT, Psychologist, RN
Allopathy and allopathic medicine
western medicine
Mainstream medicine
Orthodox medicine
Regulat medicine
Biomedicine
Complementary Medicine
describe preactices used in conjunction with or to complement conventional medical treatments
Alternative Medicine
describe practives used independently or in place of conventional medicine
Holistic MEdicine
not itself a method of treatment, but is an approach to how treatment should be applied
Focus on health and fitness
Physical, Mind, Body and spirit
The goal is a wellness that encompasees the entire person, rather than just the lack of physical pain or disease
Integrative Medicine
combinations of conventional and alternative medicial treatment which have some scientific proof efficacy
such practices are view by advocates as the best examples of complementary medicine
Ralph syndeman and Andrew Weil go so far as to clain that “integrative medicine is not synonymous with complementary and alternative medicine. It has a far larger menaing and mission in that it calls for restorationof the focus of medicine on health and healing and emphasizes the centrality of the patient-physician relationship
Functional Medicine
is a systems biology-based approach that focuses on identifying and addressing the root causes of dieasea. Each symptom or differential diagnosis may be one of many contributin to an indivdual’s illness
Physioology abd Function: Organizing the Patients Clinical Imbalance
Mental - Sprititual - emotion
Assimilation
Defense and repair
Structural Integrity
Energy
Communication
Transport
Biotransformation and elimination
Transport
Retelling the patients story
Antecedents (Preconception/prenatal)
Triggering Events
Mediators/Perpertuators
(birth/current concerns/signs, smptoms or disease reported)
Go to it steps for practicing functional medicine
Gather
Organize
Tell
Order
Initiate
TRack
Gather
Gather onself: mindfulness, optimizing the therapeutic relationship
Gather information: throughHealth history and intake forms, questionaires (medical symptoms), the intial consultation, phsical eams, objective date. A detailed functional medicine history taken appropriate to age, gender, and nature of presenting problem
Timeline
Chronological story
ATM and the patient’s stoiry
ABCDs of nutrition eval
Nutrition Physical Exam forms
Organize
the subjective and objective details from the patients story within the functional medicine paradigm. Position the patien’s presenting signs, symptoms, and ATMs, along with the details of the case history on the timeline and functional medicine matrix.
Matrix
Antecedents, Triggers, medication
Modifiable lifestyle factors
Clinical imbalances
Organizing the functional nutrition evaluation
Tell
Tel the story back to the patient in your own words to ensure accuracy and understanding. Dialogue about the case highlights (Matrix timeline)
Acknowledge patient goals
Identify the predisposing factors (antecedents)
Identify the triggeres
Identify the perpetrating factor (mediator)
explore the effects of lifestyle factors
Identify clinical imbalances or disruptionin the organizinf physiological systems of the matrix
Ask the patient to join in corecting and amplifying hte story
Personal development exercise to create and strengthen the Theraputic relationship:
Reflective listening
Motivational Interviewing
Coaching and Behavioral modifications
Order
Order and prioritize emerges from the dialogue of profession and patient. The patients mental, emotional, and spiritual perspective is of primary importance for prioritizing the next steps
Initiate
further functional assesment and intervention based upon the above work.
Perform further assesment
Intitiate patient education and therapeutic intervention
Referral to adjunctive care (Nutrional professional, lifestyle education, healthcare provider, specialist
Prescription
Referral:
ABCD order form, physical exam form, PFC-MVP Biomarkers, Diet, Nutrition, and Lifestyle journal
Patient education handouts:
Mindful eating, relaxation response, function nutrition fundamentals, core food plan and therapeutic suites
Track
Further assesment, nothe the effectiveness of the therapeutic approach, and identify clinical outcomes at each visit - in partnership with the patients
Medical symptoms questionaire
Body composition tracking
Osteopathy
- approach to health care that emphasized the role of the MSK system in health and disease
- form of medicine where conventionally trained physicians use complementart medicine, emphasizing a holistic approach
- Practioners are considered convetional medicine physicians. They attend osteopathetic school and recieve a doctorate in Osteopathy
- D.O train in traditional medicine and ostheopathic
- D.O Physicians may use a range of manual and physical treatment interventions (ostheopathic manipulativemedicine, or OMM in the US) in prevention and treatment of disease
Chiropractic
- a health care profession that focuses on diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mechanical disorders of the MSK system, with special emphasis on the spine, under the hypothesis that these disorders affect general health via the nervous system
- generally considered to be complementaty and alternative medicien a characterization may chiropractors reject
- treatment emphasizes manual therapy including spinal manipulation and other joint and soft tissue maipulations, and includes exercise and health and lifestyle couseling
- assumes that a vertebral subluxation or spinal joint dysfuntion can interfere with the body function and its innate ability to heal itseld
Acupuncture
- is a technique of inserting and manipulating fine filiform nedles into specific points on the body with the aim of relieving pain and for therapeutic purposes
- according to traditional chinese acupunture theory, acupuncture points lie along meridinas along which qi, the vital energy flows
- There is no physical, verifiable anatomical or histological basis for the existence of accupuncture points or meridians
- acupuncturist tend to view them in functional rather than structural terms
- originated in China and is most commonly associated with traditional chinesse medicine
- Different types of accupunctute (Chinease, Japanese, Tibeton, Vietnemes, adn Korean) are practived and taught throughout the world
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Neuropathy
- Emphasizes the body’s intrinsic ability to heal and maitain itself
- preferto use natural remidies such as hebs and food rather than surgery or synthetic drugs
- include many different modalities including homeopathy, herbals, supplements, dietsm neurofeedback, specialized labs and energy practices
- practioners emphazie a holistic approach to patient care and may recommend patients use conventional medicine alongside their treatments
Homepathy
- form of alternative medicien first defined by samuel hahnemann in the 18th century
- a central thesis of homeopathy is that an ill person can be treated using a substance that can produce, in a healthy person, symptoms similar to those of illness.
- Like cures Like
- select treatments according to a patient consultation that explores the physical and psychological state of the patient. Both of which are considered important to selecting the remedy
- serial dilution, with shaking between dilutions, removes the toxic effects of the substance, while the essential qualites are retained by the diluent (water, sugar, or alcohol)
Folk Medicine
decribes medical knowledge systems which developded over centuries within various societies before the era of modern medicine
Include: Herbal medicine, ayurvedic medicine, Unani medicine, accupuncture, spinal manipulation, siddha medicine, traditional chinese medicine, south african multi, youruba ifa, as well as other medical knowledge and practives all over the globe
Ayuverda
system of traditional mediicne native to india and practiced in other parts of the world as a form of alternative medicine
Life and Science
evolving throughout its history. remains influential system of medicine in SOuth asia. The earliest literature of Ayuveda appeared during the vedic period in india.
TRaditional Chinease MEdicine
includes a ranfe of traditional medical practives originating in China
it is considered a complementart or alternative medican system in much of the western world while remaining as a form of prinary care thorughtout most of asia
include treatments such as herbal medicine, acupuncture, dietary thereapy, Tui na and Shiatsu massagel often Qigong and Taiji are also strongly affiliated with TCM
Mind Body Thrapy
- branch of complementary and alternative medicine, hold belief that a healer can channel healing energu into the perosn seeking help by different methods
- hands on, hands off
- fistant (or absent) where the patien and healer are in different locations
- Types
- Reili
- Therapeutic touch
- Qigong
- Contact healing
- Distant healing
- Diofuekd energy healing
- Magnet therapy
