KHP 1139 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Physical Therapy, Naturopathy, Progressive Muscle Relaxation
20 Nov 2017
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Conventional medicine: also know as biomedicine or allopathic medicine used to describe traditional wester medicine like practiced in the united states. Therapies that have bee handed down for centuries for the treatment of symptoms and disease. Complementary therapies - therapies used in conjunction with traditional conventional treatment. Alternative therapies - when the traditional or conventional treatment is replaced with more holistic treatment same interventions as complementary treatments but they replace allopathic medicine. Programs that are being developed to allow health care consumers the opportunity to be treated by a team of providers consisting of both allopathic (conventional) and complementary practitioners. To enhance healing of the whole person from birth to death. The philosophy based on the belief that in nature, entities such as individual and organisms function as a whole unit that can"t be reduced to the sum of their parts. You must assess the patient for complementary and alternative treatments for possible interactions with traditional treatment.
