Complementary & Alternative Medicine questions
with correct answers
Evidence-Based Medicine Correct Answer-An approach to health care
that promotes the collection, interpretation, and integration of best
research-based evidence in making decisions about the care of individual
patients.
Holistic Medicine Correct Answer-An approach to medicine that
considers not only physical health but also the emotional, spiritual,
social, and psychological well-being of the person.
Alternative Medicine Correct Answer-A broad range of health care
practices that are not taught in medical schools, not generally used in
hospitals, and not usually reimbursed by insurance companies.
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Correct Answer-The
use and practice of therapies or diagnostic techniques that fall outside
conventional biomedicine.
Mind-body interventions Correct Answer-Techniques designed to affect
the mind's capacity to influence bodily functions&symptoms.
Meditation, hypnosis, prayer, music or art therapy.
What are the 5 Domains of CAM? Correct Answer-1. Alternative
medical systems
2. mind-body interventions
, 3. Biologically based therapies
4. manipulative & body-based therapies
5. energy therapies.
Alternative medical systems Correct Answer-Traditional chinese
medicines (Aryuveda- oldest known). Homeopathy(home remedies in a
particular culture)
Biologically based therapies Correct Answer-Either natural or biological
interventions, herbal supplements, Atkins diet, designed to intervene at a
biological level or some natural supplement. Adding something to the
body to change the way the body works.
Manipulative & Body-Based therapies Correct Answer-Techniques that
focus primarily on the structures and systems of body, including the
bones & joints, soft tissues, and circulatory and lymphatic systems.
(Massage therapy, Chiropractor)
Energy Therapies Correct Answer-Therapeutic touch, magnets, other
types of therapies for practitioners by helping change the energy fields
inside/outside the body by using physical touch.
Ideals of CAM Correct Answer-1. To provide health treatment that is
natural, holistic, and that promotes wellness
2. "Back-to-back" backlash against modern technology science,
biomedicine.
3. Overspecialization & fragmentation of modern medicine.
with correct answers
Evidence-Based Medicine Correct Answer-An approach to health care
that promotes the collection, interpretation, and integration of best
research-based evidence in making decisions about the care of individual
patients.
Holistic Medicine Correct Answer-An approach to medicine that
considers not only physical health but also the emotional, spiritual,
social, and psychological well-being of the person.
Alternative Medicine Correct Answer-A broad range of health care
practices that are not taught in medical schools, not generally used in
hospitals, and not usually reimbursed by insurance companies.
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Correct Answer-The
use and practice of therapies or diagnostic techniques that fall outside
conventional biomedicine.
Mind-body interventions Correct Answer-Techniques designed to affect
the mind's capacity to influence bodily functions&symptoms.
Meditation, hypnosis, prayer, music or art therapy.
What are the 5 Domains of CAM? Correct Answer-1. Alternative
medical systems
2. mind-body interventions
, 3. Biologically based therapies
4. manipulative & body-based therapies
5. energy therapies.
Alternative medical systems Correct Answer-Traditional chinese
medicines (Aryuveda- oldest known). Homeopathy(home remedies in a
particular culture)
Biologically based therapies Correct Answer-Either natural or biological
interventions, herbal supplements, Atkins diet, designed to intervene at a
biological level or some natural supplement. Adding something to the
body to change the way the body works.
Manipulative & Body-Based therapies Correct Answer-Techniques that
focus primarily on the structures and systems of body, including the
bones & joints, soft tissues, and circulatory and lymphatic systems.
(Massage therapy, Chiropractor)
Energy Therapies Correct Answer-Therapeutic touch, magnets, other
types of therapies for practitioners by helping change the energy fields
inside/outside the body by using physical touch.
Ideals of CAM Correct Answer-1. To provide health treatment that is
natural, holistic, and that promotes wellness
2. "Back-to-back" backlash against modern technology science,
biomedicine.
3. Overspecialization & fragmentation of modern medicine.
