Complementary & Alternative Therapies for Nursing PracticeA clearly written book that provides an excellent introduction to alternative therapies. Systematized health care practices, botanical healing, manual healing methods, mind-body techniques, spiritual therapies, and more. For nurses and practitioners in allied health fields who seek to expand their practice to offer wider choices to consumers of health care. |
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... chronic . Now , 80 percent of all disease is chronic . Western medicine , with its focus on acute disorders , trauma , and surgery , is considered to be the best high - tech medical care in the world . Unfortunately , it cannot respond ...
... chronic . Now , 80 percent of all disease is chronic . Western medicine , with its focus on acute disorders , trauma , and surgery , is considered to be the best high - tech medical care in the world . Unfortunately , it cannot respond ...
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... chronic health problems as well as for health promotion . It cannot cure conditions resulting from struc- tural , long - term , organic changes such as cirrhosis , diabetes , chronic obstruc- tive lung disease , advanced neurological ...
... chronic health problems as well as for health promotion . It cannot cure conditions resulting from struc- tural , long - term , organic changes such as cirrhosis , diabetes , chronic obstruc- tive lung disease , advanced neurological ...
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... chronic pain has been well es- tablished . Clients are often able to change their perceptual experience of pain by substituting numbness , a sense of pressure , or other sensation for an un- wanted pain . In 1995 , a National Institutes ...
... chronic pain has been well es- tablished . Clients are often able to change their perceptual experience of pain by substituting numbness , a sense of pressure , or other sensation for an un- wanted pain . In 1995 , a National Institutes ...
Contents
ComplementaryAlternative | 1 |
Energy | 43 |
Systematized Health Care Practices | 47 |
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