Sentences with phrase «forms of alternative therapies»

Keep in mind that supplements and other forms of alternative therapies have not been stringently tested for safety in pregnant women, nursing mothers, children, or individuals with medical conditions.

In a 2001 study sociologist Ronald C. Kessler of Harvard Medical School and his associates found that more than half of people with panic attacks or severe depression used some form of alternative therapy, including herbs, during the previous year, usually without medical supervision.

Eighty - seven percent of all the women used some form of alternative therapy with vitamin or mineral supplements and mind - body practice as the most common form of treatment.

He is also licensed to practice acupuncture and uses this form of alternative therapy to compliment traditional western medicine.

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The antibody targets a peptide on cancer cells, and is a form of biologic therapy, an increasingly appealing alternative to chemotherapy.

But the popularity of alternative medicine overall — way beyond smoking cessation — is hardly in doubt: A 2002 government survey estimated that 36 % of Americans had used some form of complementary or alternative therapy within the previous 12 months.

Many patients with endometriosis explore dietary changes, take part in support groups to share and gain emotional support, and explore various forms of relaxation and alternative therapies, such as yoga, massage, reiki, acupuncture and meditation.

(4) Medical studies have shown the effectiveness as an alternative exercise and a form of martial arts therapy.

Consider alternative natural forms of contraceptives or hormone therapies 5.

After several rounds of chemotherapy with no improvement in health, this patient began consuming dandelion tea as an alternative form of therapy.

The era of fast food restaurants, convenience store dinners, and overly processed - beverages has brought about to find healthier options can lead people to all sorts of herbal remedies and alternative forms of therapy.

Currently Energy medicine is a term being bantered about as a catch all for all forms of alternative medicine, from acupuncture, to visualization, to Reiki, to sound healing, to channeling, massage, crystal therapies, psychic work, forms of Yogic practice, etc..

Blake's formal education includes traditional Chinese medicine, five - element Chinese medicine, nutritional medicine, herbal healing, psychology, past life regression therapy - hypnosis, and various other forms of alternative medicine.

Based on clinical studies made on stem cell therapy, this alternative form or treatment has been proven to have fewer complications or none at all because the procedure itself is non-invasive, meaning no aftermath of scars or wounds.

Nevertheless, many cats can have their disease controlled in this way and it is an alternative to other forms of therapy for a number of cats.

No less promising are the effects of another alternative form of treating dogs: massage therapy.

Lola looks at a range of alternative therapies, including hospice and palliative care, natural nutrition, cancer - fighting herbs, and supplements, and the importance of daily interaction in the form of walks, grooming, and massage.

Alternative forms of treatment if surgery is not an option include physical therapy, custom orthotic braces, an animal cell transplants.

Fifth, half of our participants lacked alternative experience with other forms of (group) therapy.

Despite the evidence base for the effectiveness of CBT for adolescent depression, 10, 14, 15 adolescents often avoid face - to - face therapy because of stigma.16 Given their affinity with computers, treatment accessibility may be improved by the availability of computer - administered CBT (CCBT) which could be provided at an earlier stage of illness, 17 particularly for those with a high degree of familiarity with technology.18 CCBT represents an autonomous form of therapy delivery with the potential to provide a realistic alternative, or potentially preventative, intervention.

In this piece, our goal is to provide a look at some alternative forms of therapy that are available.

Multiple - family group therapy, a precursor of psychoeducational family intervention, emerged, in part, as a pragmatic alternative form of intervention - especially as an adjunct to the treatment of serious mental disorders with a significant biological basis, such as schizophrenia - and represented something of a conceptual challenge to some of the «systemic» (and thus potentially «family - blaming») paradigms of pathogenesis that were implicit in many of the dominant models of family therapy.