Alternative medicine and rehabilitation
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A guide to practitioners who are interested in adding one or more of the methods being discussed to their therapeutic armamentarium. Focus is on manipulation, movement therapies, mindbody therapies, and a miscellaneous group that includes acupuncture and nutritional therapy.
Wainapel and Fast, both with Albert Einstein College of Medicine/ Montefiore Medical Center in New York, point out the irony of the speciality of physical medicine and rehabilitation having been considered a form of alternative medicine 50 years ago. Rather than being a practice…
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 have had some experience …
