Complementary Therapies [komplementární terapie]
- Terms
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alternativní lékařství
alternativní medicína
alternativní terapie
komplementární léčba
komplementární medicína
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Alternative Medicine
Alternative Therapies
Complementary Medicine
Complementary Therapy
Medicine, Alternative
Medicine, Complementary
Therapy, Alternative
Therapy, Complementary
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.
- Annotation
- General or unspecified; prefer specifics; not for "alternative health care delivery system" (= DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE) or specific health service.
- DUI
- D000529 MeSH Browser
- CUI
- M0381156
- History note
- 2002(1986)
- Public note
- 2002; see ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE (1986-2001)
Allowable subheadings
- AE
- adverse effects 33
- CL
- classification 19
- EC
- economics 11
- ED
- education 9
- ES
- ethics 9
- HI
- history 32
- IS
- instrumentation 10
- LJ
- legislation & jurisprudence 29
- MT
- methods 1 225
- MO
- mortality
- NU
- nursing 2
- PX
- psychology 22
- ST
- standards 3
- SN
- statistics & numerical data 4
- TD
- trends 44
- VE
- veterinary
Narrower terms
- Acupuncture Therapy
- Anthroposophy
- Auriculotherapy
- Cupping Therapy
- Diffuse Noxious Inhibitory Control
- Dry Needling
- Holistic Health
- Homeopathy
- Horticultural Therapy
- Integrative Oncology
- Medicine, Traditional
- Mesotherapy
- Mind-Body Therapies
- Musculoskeletal Manipulations
- Naturopathy
- Organotherapy
- Percutaneous Collagen Induction
- Phytotherapy
- Prolotherapy
- Reflexotherapy
- Sensory Art Therapies
- Speleotherapy
- Spiritual Therapies