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- The Touch That Doesn’t Heal
- Physical therapy effective in treating back and neck pain
- Natural alternatives lack scientific validation
- Baby boomers should try alternative medicine solutions before …
The Touch That Doesn’t Heal
Wall Street Journal
‘ It’s more ‘People are spending a fortune on this stuff! We could do this plus our regular stuff and bill ‘em for all of it!’”Fees for CAM services are increasingly passed on to insurance through a creative — some might say fraudulent — interpretation of the Current Procedural Terminology codes that govern reimbursement for authorized services. (Various tutorials some online guide practitioners through the reimbursement maze. ) Such creativity may soon be unnecessary if the alternative medicine proponents have their way. For example ABC Coding Solutions a medical-software company has been promulgating a set of 4000 treatment codes that cover “nearly every healing modality practiced by alternative healthcare providers” to quote one report. If such codes are fully absorbed by the health-care industry CAM will have been mainstreamed — while bypassing all the customary peer review controlled studies and other hallmarks of sound medicine. Not by coincidence is CAM most avidly touted by a loose alliance of self-help gurus (Andrew Weil Deepak Chopra et al. ) and veteran hucksters like erstwhile infomercial king Kevin Trudeau.
Physical therapy effective in treating back and neck pain
Entertainment and Showbiz! India
entertainmentandshowbiz. Results of the 2007 survey of more than 32000 Americans were released December 11 by the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. And now the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) is urging patients with musculoskeletal pain to consider treatment by a physical therapist in light of new findings. In a recently published study it was shown that when patients with neck pain received up to six treatments of manual physical therapy and exercise they not only experienced pain relief but were also less likely to seek additional medical care up to one year following treatment. “This study demonstrating the efficacy of physical therapy for a condition as widespread as neck pain is particularly relevant in today’s challenging economic environment. The Kaiser Foundation for instance recently found that more than half of all Americans are not taking prescribed medication and postponing needed medical care in an effort to save money.
Natural alternatives lack scientific validation
Indianapolis Star United States
And about a teaspoon of dark honey a day can act as a cough suppressant and powerful antimicrobial agent says Dr. Mark Moyad director of preventive and alternative medicine at the University of Michigan School of Medicine. Naturopathic medicine an alternative medical approach that focuses on the body’s innate ability to heal takes a somewhat different approach when it comes to treating chronic sinus infections. Based on a study that found chronic sinus infections are caused by yeast not bacteria naturopathic physicians do not recommend antibiotics as treatment says Dr. Carol Rossetti founder of the Noblesville-based practice Wellness by Nature. “Antibiotics will kill off good and bad bacteria and leave a place for yeast to grow bigger and bigger” she says. She recommends a product called Silver Shield with Aqua Sol which can be taken as a nasal spray or by mouth.
Baby boomers should try alternative medicine solutions before …
Seattle Post Intelligencer
and asked to interview an alternative practitioner about options other than knee surgery for people with arthritis. associate professor and chair of the Physical Medicine Department in the School of Naturopathic Medicine at Bastyr agreed to answer the following questions in an e-mail interview.
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