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Complementary Therapies (Topical Term)

Number of records used in: 103
Preferred form: Complementary Therapies
Used for/see from:
  • Alternative Medicine
  • Complementary Medicine
  • Medicine, Alternative
  • Medicine, Complementary
  • n: Alternative Therapies
  • n: Therapies, Alternative
  • n: Therapies, Complementary
  • n: Therapy, Alternative
  • n: Therapy, Complementary

General or unspecified; prefer specifics; not for "alternative health care delivery system" (= DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE) or specific health service.

Therapeutic practices which are not currently considered an integral part of conventional allopathic medical practice. They may lack biomedical explanations but as they become better researched some (PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; DIET; ACUPUNCTURE) become widely accepted whereas others (humors, radium therapy) quietly fade away, yet are important historical footnotes. Therapies are termed as Complementary when used in addition to conventional treatments and as Alternative when used instead of conventional treatment.

2002(1986)

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