Exam 15: B: Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Isabel's doctor combines traditional biomedical interventions with evidence-based complementary and alternative medical therapies to treat her patients.Isabel's doctor is practicing:

The only major forms of CAM originally developed in the United States are:

Holistic medicine appeals to many people in part because it:

Complementary and alternative medicine is most accurately defined as the use and practice of therapies or diagnostic techniques that:

The component of traditional Oriental medicine in which fine needles are inserted into the skin in order to relieve pain is:

The biggest challenge facing advocates of alternative therapies is to:

The Pritikin and Ornish diets have been demonstrated to be effective in ____________ in people with ____________.

According to the conditioning explanation of the placebo effect,over years of treatment,the physician's white coat,the disinfectant smell of a waiting room,and the taste of each pill that is swallowed function as:

A recent meta-analysis of studies using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)found that needle acupuncture produced:

The Feingold diet eliminates food colors,artificial flavors,and highly processed foods as a treatment for:

Qi refers to:

Critics of chiropractic treatment point out that:

Dr.Kellogg (of cereal fame)was an early advocate of:

A straight chiropractor is someone who:

Physiologically,hypnosis is accompanied by:

As a stress management technique,biofeedback:

Which of the following is NOT one of the major domains of complementary and alternative medicine recognized by the National Institutes of Health?

The most common biofeedback technique in clinical use today is:

Allopathic medicine refers to:

The use of hypnosis in clinical medicine can be traced to ________,who discovered that a person could be induced to fall into a state of "nervous sleep."