Learning objectives What is conventional medicine How is the scientific method used to determine the efficacy of a particular treatment What is a clinical trial What is double blind What is the placebo effect ID: 674091
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Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)Slide2
Learning objectives
What is ‘conventional’ medicine?
How is the scientific method used to determine the efficacy of a particular treatment?
What is a clinical trial? What is ‘double blind’? What is the placebo effect?
What are ‘complementary’, ‘alternative’, and ‘integrative’ approaches to treatment?
What are some (general) benefits and risks of treatment with dietary supplements or herbal medicines?
Understand that scientific studies on Mind-body practices such as tai-chi, yoga, hypnosis, meditation
etc
as well as holistic approaches such as traditional
chinese
medicine,
Ayurvedic
medicine, homeopathy, and naturopathy. have mostly failed to show much benefit of the treatment except generally for pain reduction.
This may be due to a lack of such studies (they are very difficult to do well), or a small effect of the treatment that is difficult to pinpoint.Slide3
Conventional medicine
Pathogens and organic changes to body cause illness
Reductionist — body is like a machine that can be reduced to its parts and individual parts can be treated
Illness is defined by a set of symptoms that are similar for everyone that has the illness.
Investigations into cause of disease
happen
via scientific method.Slide4
Placebo effect
Measurable, observable, or reported improvement in health or behavior not attributable to medicine or invasive treatment that has been administeredSlide5
Clinical trials
The last step in developing treatments
Control for placebo effect
Double-blind
Assess risks and efficacy of treatmentSlide6
CAM
Complementary Medicine: Used WITH conventional medicine
Alternative Medicine: Used in place of conventional medicine
Integrative medicine: CAM treatments integrated into and coordinated with conventional medicineSlide7Slide8
Natural Products
Dietary supplements
Herbal medicinesSlide9
Mind-body practices
Acupuncture and acupressureSlide10
Mind-body practices
Tai Chi, Qi Gong, YogaSlide11
Mind-body practices
HypnosisSlide12
Mind-body practices
MeditationSlide13
Mind-body practices
MassageSlide14
Mind-body practices
chiropractic medicineSlide15
Other holistic approaches
Traditional Chinese medicineSlide16
Other holistic approaches
Ayurvedic medicineSlide17
Other holistic approaches
homeopathySlide18
Other holistic approaches
naturopathySlide19
HOW DO WE CHOOSE?
Making decisions about CAM is difficult
Very little information
Information on internet is often advertisement or other promotion
Sickness caused by pathogens
Pain
Evaluate YOUR symptoms
Coordinate with a doctor
Don’t delay care that is known to be effective.