Exam 17: Complementary and Integrative Medicine

Direct-to-consumer advertisements enhance the medicalization of personality traits and physical differences.

CAM practices are more commonly used by women than by men.

One side effect to using intranasal zinc to shorten the duration of a cold is the potential for permanent loss of smell.

Massage therapy has been shown to be beneficial for lowering anxiety levels, lowering depression, lowering pain levels, and improving immune function.

Cheryl takes an aspirin for a headache.She is practicing

Involves the practice of both acupuncture and moxibustion

Acupuncture originated within what health care system?

Chinese yams, sweet potatoes, and whole grains are ________ foods that produce feelings of calmness.

Andrew Taylor Still founded the practice of osteopathy.

Combines mainstream medical therapies and CAM therapies

Some studies suggest that practicing t'ai chi may improve physical functioning for older adults, lower blood pressure, reduce anxiety and depression, and enhance immune functioning.

The vital energy, or life force, believed to flow through the body is ________; it is a concept in traditional Chinese medicine and other forms of CAM.

Complications from acupuncture occur frequently.

A very simplified concept within traditional Chinese medicine is that the world is made up of two opposite components.Of these, ________ represents the active, external, hot, and bright.

Which of the following is a treatment in which long, thin needles are inserted at certain points in the skin to stimulate the flow of qi?

Which of the following medical systems incorporates a concept of three energy sources called kapha, vatta, and pitta? Good health is believed to occur when the three energy sources are in balance.

Which of the following health practices is often assumed by users to be safe because is it "natural," and yet this practice can have powerful effects, sometimes adverse ones, and safety can be a major concern?

Garlic is a(n) ________ food that improves energy.

A misalignment, displacement, or dislocation of vertebrae

Sometimes called biomedicine or Western medicine, ________ is medicine as practiced by holders of medical doctor (M.D.) degrees and by their allied health professionals, such as physical therapists, psychologists, and registered nurses.