Complementary and Alternative Healing Modalities

Question 1

Acupuncture and Acupressure

Answer 1

Techniques that use stimulation or pressure on specific points of the body to relieve pain, cure certain illnesses, and promote health.

Question 2

Allopathic Medicine

Answer 2

Form of Western Medical Practices

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Alternative Medicine

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Refers to the use of complementary and alternative medicine INSTEAD OF conventional medicine.

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Animal-Assisted Therapy

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Use of animals to promote health. Animals provide companionship, encourage exercise (physical and vocal). Horseback riding helps strengthen muscles and improve balance

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Aromatherapy

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Using fragrance of essential oils to heal.

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Ayurveda

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Indian Medicine. Illness is viewed as imbalance of body systems.

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Balance

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Finding a desirable point between opposing forces. Includes mental, emotional, physical, spiritual, and environmental components.

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Bioelectromagnetics

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Use of magnets to heal the body. Studies how living organisms interact with electromagnetic fields. Those electromagnetic fields can affect the functioning of cells and tissues.

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Biofeedback

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Teaching a client to control certain physiological responses of the body. Electronic equipment is used to provide clients with visible or audible evidence that they are controlling their body in the desired manner.

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Biomedicine

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Form of Western Medical Practices

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Chiropractic

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Relationship between the spine and the body’s capacity to function.

Question 12

Complementary Medicine

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Refers to the use of complementary and alternative medicine WITH conventional medicine.

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Conventional Medicine

Answer 13

Form of Western Medical Practices

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Curanderismo

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Latin American healing practice

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Detoxification

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The belief that physical impurities and toxins must be cleared from the body to achieve better health.

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Eastern Medicine

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Places emphasis on prevention and natural healing.

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Energy

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The force that integrates the body, mind, and spirit. It connects everything.

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Faith

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Refers to our beliefs and expectations about life, ourselves, and others. It is a sense of letting go of the need to control while trusting that answers will come.

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Herbal Medicine

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Treating illness with herbs.

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Holism

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The belief that people are more than physical bodies. It combines mental, spiritual, emotional, relationship, and environmental components.

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Humanist

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The mind and body are one, people have the power to solve their own problems

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Integrative Medicine

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Combines treatments from conventional medicine and complimentary and alternative medicine.

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Spirituality

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Involves relationship with oneself, with others, and with a higher power.

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Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)

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The body’s energy (qi) circulates through pathways and can be accessed and manipulated through specific anatomic points along the surface of the body.

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Western Medicine

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An approach to health that focuses on the use of science in the diagnosis and treatment of health problems.

Question 26

Describe the basic concepts of alternative practices.

Answer 26

Holism, Humanism, Balance, Spirituality, Energy, Healing Environments.

Question 27

Give examples of healing environments.

Answer 27

Healing environments are created when nurses empower clients by providing the knowledge, skills, and support that allow them to tap into their inner wisdom and make healthy decisions for themselves. Healthy balance between technology and compassion. Taking time to be with clients in deeply caring ways.