Integrating complementary/alternative medicine into primary care: evaluating the evidence and appropriate implementation

This article examines three of them: osteopathic manipulation, yoga, and acupuncture, with a focus on their physiological effects, efficacy in treating medical conditions commonly encountered by practitioners, precautions or contraindications, and ways in which they can be incorporated into clinical practice. Physicians should routinely obtain information about use of CAM as part of their patient history and should consider their role based on physiological effects and clinical research results. Keywords: integrative medicine, osteopathic manipulation, yoga, acupuncture therapyCorrigendum for this paper has been published.
Source: International Journal of General Medicine - Category: Journals (General) Tags: International Journal of General Medicine Source Type: research