HSC 300 FINAL EXAM 2026 ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Caveat Emptor:
Let the Buyer Beware - ✔✔Places responsibility on the consumer.
The exception to this is if the seller actively conceals latent defects or otherwise made
material misrepresentations amounting to fraud.
✔✔Acupuncture history - ✔✔Different beliefs of how it started. One story is soldiers
wounded in battles by arrows were cured of chronic afflictions
-History traced back to 1100 BC
✔✔Massage history - ✔✔Archaeological evidence of massage has been found in many
ancient civilizations including China, India, Japan, Korea, Egypt, Rome, Greece, and
Mesopotamia.
✔✔Holistic
what do they have in common?
Acupuncture
Massage
Reflexology
Naturopathic - ✔✔Holistic, prevention, increase your body's ability to fight sickness
✔✔Von Leeuwenhoek - ✔✔Learned how to make magnifying glasses by curving
glasses to help see the thread count of threads in cloth to purchase
One day decided to look into a glass of water
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek was the first to see and describe bacteria (1674)
circulation of blood corpuscles in capillaries
in 1702, Leeuwenhoek remarked that "in all falling rain, carried from gutters into water-
butts, animalcules are to be found; and that in all kinds of water, standing in the open
air, animalcules can turn up. For these animalcules can be carried over by the wind,
along with the bits of dust floating in the air."
✔✔Biomedicine - ✔✔views the person primarily as a physical body, with the mind and
spirit being separate, secondary or at times, even irrelevant
Ancient healing usually involves at least two of the three major causes of illness:
Physical Health
,Mental Health
Spiritual Health
Biomedicine characterizes each disease in terms of its mechanisms of action, believing
that most individuals are affected the same way
✔✔Emergency medicine - ✔✔Biomedicine, or modern medicine is based on science
and technology.
As a "rescue medicine" the biomedical approach is a life saver!
Ex. Chop your arm off with a chainsaw!
✔✔Alternative therapies - ✔✔They are based on treating the whole, not the parts
Mental, emotional, spiritual and environmental components of well-being
We are born with an innate intelligence, an innate ability to heal. (Acupuncture this is
chi)
✔✔Allopathic medicine
is symptom based.
What is a symptom? - ✔✔a physical or mental feature that is regarded as indicating a
condition of disease, particularly such a feature that is apparent to the patient.
✔✔complimentary
alternative
integration
healthcare - ✔✔Complimentary Healthcare
-"Goes along with"
-Massage is complimentary to ...
Alternative Healthcare
-"In place of"
-Acupuncture in place of high blood pressure medicine
Integrated Healthcare
-Using everything together
✔✔CAM - Common conditions most often treated alternatively - ✔✔1. Pain
2. Arthritis
3.Anxiety/Depression
4. Stomach problems
5. Recurring Headaches
,6. Insomnia
7. Infertility
✔✔CAM
how many people in United States have looked outside of conventional medicine for
cam treatment
two-thirds - ✔✔Almost two-thirds of adults in the U.S. have looked outside of
conventional medicine for relief from symptoms and improvement in health.
Most of these fail to discuss the alternative care with their doctor, and most aren't
referred by medical physician.
✔✔CAM -
men vs women
Latinos vs europeans - ✔✔In general, women are more likely to seek alternative care
than men
Latinos have a higher rate of use (50 - 90%) than Europeans
Curandera - Spanish healer
✔✔CAM uses touch?
How many Alternative/complimentary practices involve touch (of some fashion)? -
✔✔Native American Healing
Massage
Chiropractic
Reflexology
Acupuncture
Traditional Chinese Medicine (massage is vital)
Ayurvedic Medicine (massage is vital)
Naturopathic
Ayurvedic worlds oldest holistic whole body healing system developed more than 5000
years ago in India it's based on the belief that health and wellness depend on delicate
balance between the mind body and spirit.
✔✔CAM
therapies to treat stress
Alternative care & stress - ✔✔Most forms of alternative care are designed to help
reduce or eliminate stress
Massage
Yoga
, Acupuncture
Meditation
✔✔Balance - ✔✔A peaceful co-existence and harmony with all aspects of life.
Balance is found in all cultures throughout time
Balance is a path, rather than a steady state
Mental, Physical, emotional, spiritual and environmental components
read book
✔✔Cyclic rhythms - ✔✔The daily lives of all living things are filled with various changes
that take place in a cyclic pattern
Our body likes patterns!
Ex. Metabolism
Ex. Sleep
✔✔Rhythms - ✔✔Circadian rhythms - regular fluctuations of a variety of physiological
functions over a 24 hr span
Hunger, sleep, energy
Ultradian Rhythms are shorter than 24 hours
(REM sleep lasting 90 mins at a time)
Infradian rhythms - last longer than 24 hours
Menstrual cycle
Cell division, death and replacement
Rhythms can be broken by internal or external factors
How do these rhythms become changed?
-Going to bed and waking up at different times on weekdays vs. weekends!
✔✔spirituality - ✔✔Spiritual healing is amongst the oldest beliefs. Spirit is the liveliness,
fullness and richness of one's life.
Spirituality is the dimension that involves relationship with oneself, with others and with
a higher power
Involves finding significant
Meaning & purpose to their
Life
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Caveat Emptor:
Let the Buyer Beware - ✔✔Places responsibility on the consumer.
The exception to this is if the seller actively conceals latent defects or otherwise made
material misrepresentations amounting to fraud.
✔✔Acupuncture history - ✔✔Different beliefs of how it started. One story is soldiers
wounded in battles by arrows were cured of chronic afflictions
-History traced back to 1100 BC
✔✔Massage history - ✔✔Archaeological evidence of massage has been found in many
ancient civilizations including China, India, Japan, Korea, Egypt, Rome, Greece, and
Mesopotamia.
✔✔Holistic
what do they have in common?
Acupuncture
Massage
Reflexology
Naturopathic - ✔✔Holistic, prevention, increase your body's ability to fight sickness
✔✔Von Leeuwenhoek - ✔✔Learned how to make magnifying glasses by curving
glasses to help see the thread count of threads in cloth to purchase
One day decided to look into a glass of water
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek was the first to see and describe bacteria (1674)
circulation of blood corpuscles in capillaries
in 1702, Leeuwenhoek remarked that "in all falling rain, carried from gutters into water-
butts, animalcules are to be found; and that in all kinds of water, standing in the open
air, animalcules can turn up. For these animalcules can be carried over by the wind,
along with the bits of dust floating in the air."
✔✔Biomedicine - ✔✔views the person primarily as a physical body, with the mind and
spirit being separate, secondary or at times, even irrelevant
Ancient healing usually involves at least two of the three major causes of illness:
Physical Health
,Mental Health
Spiritual Health
Biomedicine characterizes each disease in terms of its mechanisms of action, believing
that most individuals are affected the same way
✔✔Emergency medicine - ✔✔Biomedicine, or modern medicine is based on science
and technology.
As a "rescue medicine" the biomedical approach is a life saver!
Ex. Chop your arm off with a chainsaw!
✔✔Alternative therapies - ✔✔They are based on treating the whole, not the parts
Mental, emotional, spiritual and environmental components of well-being
We are born with an innate intelligence, an innate ability to heal. (Acupuncture this is
chi)
✔✔Allopathic medicine
is symptom based.
What is a symptom? - ✔✔a physical or mental feature that is regarded as indicating a
condition of disease, particularly such a feature that is apparent to the patient.
✔✔complimentary
alternative
integration
healthcare - ✔✔Complimentary Healthcare
-"Goes along with"
-Massage is complimentary to ...
Alternative Healthcare
-"In place of"
-Acupuncture in place of high blood pressure medicine
Integrated Healthcare
-Using everything together
✔✔CAM - Common conditions most often treated alternatively - ✔✔1. Pain
2. Arthritis
3.Anxiety/Depression
4. Stomach problems
5. Recurring Headaches
,6. Insomnia
7. Infertility
✔✔CAM
how many people in United States have looked outside of conventional medicine for
cam treatment
two-thirds - ✔✔Almost two-thirds of adults in the U.S. have looked outside of
conventional medicine for relief from symptoms and improvement in health.
Most of these fail to discuss the alternative care with their doctor, and most aren't
referred by medical physician.
✔✔CAM -
men vs women
Latinos vs europeans - ✔✔In general, women are more likely to seek alternative care
than men
Latinos have a higher rate of use (50 - 90%) than Europeans
Curandera - Spanish healer
✔✔CAM uses touch?
How many Alternative/complimentary practices involve touch (of some fashion)? -
✔✔Native American Healing
Massage
Chiropractic
Reflexology
Acupuncture
Traditional Chinese Medicine (massage is vital)
Ayurvedic Medicine (massage is vital)
Naturopathic
Ayurvedic worlds oldest holistic whole body healing system developed more than 5000
years ago in India it's based on the belief that health and wellness depend on delicate
balance between the mind body and spirit.
✔✔CAM
therapies to treat stress
Alternative care & stress - ✔✔Most forms of alternative care are designed to help
reduce or eliminate stress
Massage
Yoga
, Acupuncture
Meditation
✔✔Balance - ✔✔A peaceful co-existence and harmony with all aspects of life.
Balance is found in all cultures throughout time
Balance is a path, rather than a steady state
Mental, Physical, emotional, spiritual and environmental components
read book
✔✔Cyclic rhythms - ✔✔The daily lives of all living things are filled with various changes
that take place in a cyclic pattern
Our body likes patterns!
Ex. Metabolism
Ex. Sleep
✔✔Rhythms - ✔✔Circadian rhythms - regular fluctuations of a variety of physiological
functions over a 24 hr span
Hunger, sleep, energy
Ultradian Rhythms are shorter than 24 hours
(REM sleep lasting 90 mins at a time)
Infradian rhythms - last longer than 24 hours
Menstrual cycle
Cell division, death and replacement
Rhythms can be broken by internal or external factors
How do these rhythms become changed?
-Going to bed and waking up at different times on weekdays vs. weekends!
✔✔spirituality - ✔✔Spiritual healing is amongst the oldest beliefs. Spirit is the liveliness,
fullness and richness of one's life.
Spirituality is the dimension that involves relationship with oneself, with others and with
a higher power
Involves finding significant
Meaning & purpose to their
Life
