Concept information
Preferred term
Complementary Therapies
Type
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mesh:Descriptor
Definition
- 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. Therapies are termed as Alternative when used instead of conventional treatment.
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- 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
- Phytotherapy
- Prolotherapy
- Reflexotherapy
- Sensory Art Therapies
- Speleotherapy
- Spiritual Therapies
Entry terms
- Therapy, Complementary
Allowable Qualifier(s)
- adverse effects (Qualifier)
- classification (Qualifier)
- economics (Qualifier)
- education (Qualifier)
- ethics (Qualifier)
- history (Qualifier)
- instrumentation (Qualifier)
- legislation & jurisprudence (Qualifier)
- methods (Qualifier)
- mortality (Qualifier)
- nursing (Qualifier)
- organization & administration (Qualifier)
- psychology (Qualifier)
- standards (Qualifier)
- statistics & numerical data (Qualifier)
- trends (Qualifier)
- veterinary (Qualifier)
In other languages
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French
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Thérapies complémentaires et alternatives
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-RC1GB3NM-G
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