CHAPTER 8 NOTES – HLTH 2374 CAM – COMPLEMENTARY & ALTERNATIVE MEDIINE – QUESTIONABLE PRACTICES, MOST OF WHICH WOULD BE MORE ACCURATELY CHARACTERIZED AS QUACKERY. TRUE BELIEVERS IN CAM CLING TO UNSAFE AND INEFFECTIVE METHODS AS A MATTER OF FAITH. SOME MAY BE APPROPRIATELY USED AS PART OF THE ART OF PATIENT CARE OR AS SELF-CARE. ALTERNATIVE OR UNCONVENTIONAL TREATMENTS – PRACTIVES EXPLICITLY USED FOR THE PURPOSE OF MEDICAL INTERVENTION, HEALTH PREVENTION, OR DISEASE PREVENTION WHICH ARE NOT ROUTINELY TAUGHT AT U.S. MEDICAL SCHOOLS NOR ROUTINELY ARE UNDER WRITTEN BY THIRD-PARTY PAYERS WITH THE EXISTING U.S. HEALTH CARE SYSTEM. CONCEPTS: CONVENTIONAL MEDICINE IS BASED ON THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD THERE ARE MANY ALTERNATIVE TREATMENT METHODS THAT HAVE NO SCIENTIFIC BASIS OR VALIDATION; NOT SUBJECTED TO RIGOROUS ASSESSMENT, OR ESTABLISHED BODY OF KNOWLEDGE A PERSON’S HEALTH IS AFFECTED BY MANY FACTORS THE POLITICAL PROCESS IS BEING USED MORE AND MORE TO LEGITIMIZE VARIOUS NONSCIENTIFICALLY BASED TREATMENT APPROACHES ALTERNATIVE METHODS DO NOT LEAD THEMSELVES TO SIMPLE CLASSIFICATION. ONE WAY TO CLASSIFY IS AS: ALTERNATIVE MEDICAL SYSTEMSMANIPULATIVE AND BODU-BASED METHODS MINDIBODY INTERVENTIONSENERGY THERAPIES BIOLOGICALLY BASED THERAPIES THAT USE NATURAL SUBSTANCES QUESTIONS TO USE FOR EVALUATING ALTERNATIVE METHODS – BOOK P. 143

1999 SURVEY OF AMERICANS FOUND: –6.5% USED BOTH UN AND CONVENTIONAL PRACTITIONERS –1.8% USED ONLY UNCONVENTIONAL SERVICES –59.5% USED ONLY CONVENTIONAL CARE –32.2% USED NEITHER 2002 REPORT ON CAM US DURING LAST 12 MONTHS: PRAYER FOR OWN HEALTH 43% PRAYER FOR OTHERS 24.4% NONVITAMIN, NONMINERAL NATURAL PRODUCTS 18.9% DEEP BREATHING EXERCISES 11.6% PRAYER GROUP FOR ONE’S OWN HEALTH 9.6% MEDIATION 7.6% CHIROPRACTIC CARE 7.5% YOGA 5.1% MASSAGE 5% DIET-BASED THERAPIES 3.5%

ALTERNATIVE METHODS ACUPUNCTURE REFLEXOLOGY CHIROPRACTIC NATUROPATHY NATURAL HYGIENE IRIDOLOGY HOMEOPATHY PSYCHIC HEALING EVANGELICAL HEALERS CHRISTIAN SCIENCE INTERCESSORY PRAYER PSYCHIC SURGURY THERAPEUTIC TOUCH KIRLIAN PHOTOGRAPHY OCCULT PRACTICES SPIRITUALISM AND THE “NEW AGE” TRACE CHANNELING ASTROLOGY BIORHYTHMS

TRANSCENTDENTAL MEDITATION MAHARISHI AYUR-VED YOGA THERAPY VISUAL TRAINING OTHER ALTERNATIVE PRACTIVES AROMATHERAPY MAGNET THERAPY CHELATION THERAPY HOLISTIC MEDICINE THE NIH CENTER FOR COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE