Alternative Medicine and Rehabilitation

by Wainapel, Stanley F.; Fast, Avital

• ISBN13: 9781888799668
• ISBN10: 1888799668
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Demos Medical Pub

Summary

Although unconventional therapies have coexisted with traditional medicine for centuries, the extent of their utilization was only recently recognized; we now know between one third and one half of patients receiving traditional rehabilitation therapies h

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Contributors	ix
The Physiologic Basis of Manipulation	1	(30)
Scott T. Stoll
David Russo
The Efficacy of Manipulative Treatment	31	(28)
James W. Atchison
Chiropractic Therapy in the Rehabilitation of Neuromusculoskeletal Diseases	59	(18)
Ralph E. Gay
Craig F. Nelson
Massage as a Form of Complementary and Alternative Healing Modality for Physical Manipulation	77	(22)
Jackson C. Tan
Tai Chi Chuan	99	(40)
Steven L. Wolf
Michael J. O'Grady
Tingsen Xu
Yoga in Medicine	139	(36)
Loren Fishman
The Alexander Technique	175	(10)
Glenna Batson
Prayer, Meditation, and Spirituality in Rehabilitation	185	(12)
Ann C. Cotter
Valerie Spangenberg
Gregory Mulford
Julie Wilcox
Biofeedback as an Adjunct in Rehabilitation Medicine	197	(16)
Nomita Sonty
Clinical Hypnosis	213	(32)
Philip R. Appel
Acupuncture: From Qi to Biomedical Science	245	(18)
Gary Kaplan
Nutritional Therapy in Rehabilitation	263	(14)
Ronald. L. Hoffman
Research Program of the NIH Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Stroke and Neurologic Disorders: 1995--2000	277	(16)
Samuel C. Shiflett
Reading the Complementary and Alternative Medicine Literature	293	(18)
Mark A. Thomas
Paying for Complementary and Alternative Medicine	311	(6)
James Dillard
Low Back Pain: An Integrative Treatment Approach	317	(26)
Gary Kaplan
Robert Umlauf
Alternative Therapies for Complications of Diabetes Mellitus	343	(8)
Richard K. Bernstein
Qi Gong Exercise in the Treatment of Cumulative Trauma Disorder	351	(22)
Philip Harris
Clinical Applications of Magnetic Therapy for Neuropathic Pain	373	(6)
Michael I. Weintraub
Index	379