Intro to Alternative Medicine Lecture Powerpoint

Question 1

Conventional medicine

Answer 1

Medicine practiced by holders of MD or DO and allied health professionals, also called allopathic, western, mainstream, orthodox, regular, or biomedicine

Question 2

Complementary, Integrative, and Alternative medicine

Answer 2

Health care practicies and products that are not presently considered to be a part of conventional medicine, complementary is used together with conventional, alternative is used in place of conventional, integrative makes use of all appropriate therapies regardless of style to best treat the patient

Question 3

Recent studies indicate that most patients use some type of complementary/alternative medicine but…

Answer 3

….do not inform their providers (1/3 people have tried some form of CAM)

Question 4

What are some reasons patients are using complementary/alternative medicine? (3)

Answer 4

• Medical professionals do NOT relate to patients as individuals but rather as diseases
• biomedicine has not had success with many chronic illness
• high costs of medical care in the US

Question 5

Top 3 conditions that prompt patients to use complemetnary/alternative therapies

Answer 5

• Back pain
• neck pain
• joint pain

Question 6

The principle of homeopathic medicine

Answer 6

Like cures like

Question 7

Osteopathic medicine

Answer 7

A type of western medicine that alongside traditional allopathic training are also trained to focus on the relationship of the body and its function, alignment, and physical manipulation

Question 8

Naturopathic Medicine

Answer 8

An ND, different states have different requirements, seeks to restore and maintain optimum health by emphasizing natures inherent self healing process without physical manipulation

Question 9

Traditional Chinese Medicine

Answer 9

Focused on the balanced flow of qi thru the body, and goal is to balance thru various herbal therapies such as acupuncture or tai chi to treat health problems

Question 10

Ayurvedic medicine (where did it originate?)***

Answer 10

Originated in India, idea that there is universal interconnectedness among people and their health and the universe, uses herbs and supplements to treat diseases

Question 11

Manipulative and body based practices

Answer 11

Practices such as chiropractic, acupuncture and pressure, physical therapy, aromatherapy, dance therapy, Qi Gong, and massage

Question 12

Chiropractic medicine

Answer 12

Emphasizes structural alignment of the spine and involves manipulation of the spine and joints to re-establish normal nervous system function

Question 13

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy

Answer 13

A type of mind body medicine using accelerated info processing method using alternating stimuli either eye movements or sound to desensitize and reprocess emotional wounds, helpful in traumatic processing and recovery

Question 14

Energy medicines

Answer 14

Use of therapies that involve types of energy fields and the manipulation

Question 15

If the NCCIH hasn’t researched an alternative type of medicine, then…

Answer 15

…it cannot be recommended by a PA

Question 16

Psychoneuroimmunology***

Answer 16

Appreciation of the interaction between mind, brain, and body involving recognition of the significance of placebo in situations where biomedicine cannot explain scientific observations of effects, the idea that if a patient believes they will recover then they are more likely to do so

Question 17

Placebo effect***

Answer 17

Physiological response following administration of pharmacologically inert substance

Question 18

Aromatherapy and how it works***

Answer 18

Use of essential oils extracted from plants and herbs to treat physical imbalances, as well as achieve psychological and spiritual wellbeing through either inhalation, application externally, or ingestion, theorized to work thru stimulating the olfactory bulb and thus the limbic system to bring back memories that elicit feelings of calm and manifest a physiological response

Question 19

Biomedicine***

Answer 19

Based on western understanding, science based, praacticed by MD’s and DO’s, critical review focuses on establishing cause and effect