Do you use the most common complementary therapies?
Today, healthcare professionals embrace reform anchored in personal health. This includes the physical, mental, emotional, social, and integrated relationship-centered care, and optimal healing environments. Complementary and alternative therapies within each classification designated by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine are used more often, such as:
- Alternative or complete/whole medical systems
- Mindbodyspirit interventions
- Biologically based systems
- Manipulative and body-based methods
- Energy therapies
Healthcare professionals are greeted with increasing opportunities for the inclusion of complementary and alternative therapies in professional education. Here are the 10 most used complementary therapies for American adults to consider integrating into your practice:
If you’re not currently using these therapies, or want to learn more about them, you can discover more from the only book about complementary and alternative therapies written specifically for nurses that focuses on essential evidence for practice.
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