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Complementary Approaches to Care
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Complementary Approaches to Care Complementary medicine (CM) refers to many different therapeutic techniques of treating a patient. Which are considered unorthodox therapies and are used as adjuncts to conventional medicine (Freshwater 2005). These techniques are based on systems that were practiced thousands of years ago and are believed to be the original forms of medicine. All complementary medicine has one thing in common, which is that they treat the patient as a whole person rather than concentrating on their symptoms, this is called holistic care, many complementary therapists believe that disease is the result of disturbances in a patients physical, psychological, social, and spiritual levels and that the purpose of CM is to restore balance and help the body's own healing process. CM is becoming increasingly popular with the general public and media. Many medical professionals are now recognising the benefits of CM when combine with mainstream medical approaches. Some...
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