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Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Complementary Medicine Professionals An overview of complementary and integrative medicine including history, branches of practice, professionals, and research methods. Education and Training Currently, there is no standardized education of complementary medical practice.
A chiropractor performs an adjustment Public Domain. Licensing and Certification Like education, there is not a national standard for the licensing of complementary medical professionals. Here are six tips to consider from the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health during your search: If you need names of practitioners in your area, first check with your doctor or other health care provider.
Integrative health aims for well-coordinated care among different providers and institutions by bringing conventional and complementary approaches together to care for the whole person. The use of integrative approaches to health and wellness has grown within care settings across the United States.
Researchers are currently exploring the potential benefits of integrative health in a variety of situations, including pain management for military personnel and veterans, relief of symptoms in cancer patients and survivors, and programs to promote healthy behaviors. Whole person health refers to helping individuals improve and restore their health in multiple interconnected domains—biological, behavioral, social, environmental—rather than just treating disease.
Research on whole person health includes expanding the understanding of the connections between these various aspects of health, including connections between organs and body systems. Complementary approaches can be classified by their primary therapeutic input how the therapy is taken in or delivered , which may be:. These approaches include a variety of products, such as herbs also known as botanicals , vitamins and minerals , and probiotics. They are widely marketed, readily available to consumers, and often sold as dietary supplements.
These products were the most popular complementary health approach in the survey. See chart. The most commonly used nonvitamin, nonmineral dietary supplement was fish oil. Research on others is in progress. While there are indications that some may be helpful, more needs to be learned about the effects of these products in the human body, and about their safety and potential interactions with medicines and other natural products.
These approaches are often administered or taught by a trained practitioner or teacher. The NHIS showed that yoga, chiropractic and osteopathic manipulation , and meditation are among the most popular complementary health approaches used by adults.
According to the NHIS , the popularity of yoga has grown dramatically in recent years, from 9. The NHIS also showed that the use of meditation increased more than threefold from 4. Other psychological and physical approaches include relaxation techniques such as breathing exercises and guided imagery , qi gong , hypnotherapy , Feldenkrais method, Alexander technique, Pilates, Rolfing Structural Integration, and Trager psychophysical integration.
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