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Chapter 35 Potter
Complementary and Alternative Therapies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Traditional Western medicine is also known as: | allopathic medicine |
| Therapies used in addition to conventional treatment recommended by the person's health care provider: | complimentary therapies |
| treatment by a team of providers consisting of both allopathic and complimentary practioners: | integrative medicine |
| Physiological response characterized by increased heart/respiratory rate, tightened muscles, increased metabolic rate, fear, nervousness, irritability, and negative mood: | stress response |
| Relaxation | state of generalized decreased cognitive, physiological, and/or behavioral arousal |
| This training teaches the individual how to effectively rest & reduce tension in the body by tightening and relaxing different muscle groups, also learn to differentiate between high-intensity and subtle tension | Progressive relaxation |
| teaching the individual to relax individual muscle groups passively (breathing out and releasing tension) | Passive relaxation |
| An activity that limits stimulus input by directing attention to a single unchanging or reptative stimulus: | meditation |
| Visualization techniques that use the conscious mind to create mental images to stimulate physical changes in the body, improve percieved well-being, and/or enhance self-awareness | imagery |
| A form of self-directed imagery that is based on the principle of mind-body connectivity | creative visualization |
| A group of therapeutic procedures that use electronic or electromechanical instruments to measure, process, and provide info. to persons about their neuromuscular and ANS activity: | biofeedback |
| What are the five phases of therapeutic touch? | centering, assessment, unruffling, treatment, and evaluation |
| A manual healing art, spinal manipulation directed at certain joints by a prctitioner | chiropractic therapy |
| TCM - Traditional Chinese Medicine | several healing modalities including herbs, acupuncture, moxibustion, diet, exercise, and meditation |
| Yin and Yang | represent opposing yet complimentary phenomenon that exist in a state of equilibrium |
| Qi | vital energy of the human body |
| meridians | channels of energy runnung in regular patterns through our body and over it's surface |
| acupoints | holes through which qi can be influenced |
| acupunture | inserting a needle along the meridian at acupoints |
| plants used as medicine | herbal therapy |
| Key Concepts (35) | Alternative and complimentary therapies can be the same, depending on whether the therapy is primary treatment or treatment in addition to the Western medicine treatment |
| Key Concepts (35) | Integrative medical programs utilize a multidisciplinary (both allopathic and complementary) treatment approach providing holistic care to clients |
| Key Concepts (35) | The stress response is an adaptive response allowing individuals to react to stressfull situations |
| Key Concepts (35) | A chronic stress response may be maladaptive, leading to chronic muscle tension, mood changes, and immune changes. |
| Key Concepts (35) | Relaxation is a beneficial state characterized by low pulse rates, respiratory rates, blood pressure, and muscle tension and improved mood states. |
| Key Concepts (35) | CAM therapies require commitment and regular involvement by the client to be most effective and have prolonged benficial outcomes |
| Key Concepts (35) | CAM therapies should be appropraitely chosen according to the person's functional status, belief or religious perspectives, access to health care, and insurance coverage |
| Key Concepts (35) | Some CAM therapies may alter physiological responses such that routine medication doses may need changing |
| Key Concepts (35) | imagery is usually visual but can also involve the auditory, proprioceptive, gustatory, and olfactory senses |
| Key Concepts (35) | many complementary and alternative therapies lack a scientific basis but are thought to be effective based on observed positive outcomes in a number of clients |
| Despite the success of allopathic medicine (traditional Western medicine), many clients with conditions such as the following find relief in complementary therapies: | chronic back pain and arthiritis |
| Many of the complementary therapies, such as acupuncture, contain diagnostic and therapeutic methods specific to their field, whereas others, such as the following, are more easily learned and applied: | breathwork and imagery |
| It is estimated that half of US citizens use a CAM practitioner and that these visits: | exceeds the visits to allopathics |
| Holistic nursing regards and treats the: | Mind, body, and spirit of the client |
| When the nurse utilizes CAM, adequate assessment and the client's: | permission are a prerequisite for implementation |
| One of the principles of CAM therapies is that the individual becomes: | actively involved in the treatment |
| The stress response is a good example of the way in which systems: | cooperate to protect an individual from harm |
| Client's medications should be monitored carefully because meditation may augment the effects of certain drugs such as: | antihypertensives, and thyroid regulating meds |
| Biofeedback techniques are frequently used in addition to relaxation interventions to assist individuals: | in learning how to control specific ANS responses |
| Therapeutic touch is a training-specific therapy that was developed by a: | nurse |
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