HS 200

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HS 200

• Summary, Assessment, and Reflection of Behavior
  change Project due today.
• Rubric must be attached to the front.
• Tues, Dec. 5 Last day to accept the
  Health-Related Community Activity/Event (for
  those who did not do the 12-Step assignment)

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Conventional and Complementary Medicine Skills
for the Health Care Consumer

• Chapter 15

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Self-Assessment Managing Medical Problems

• Effectively managing medical problems.
• Self-Assessment.
• Observing symptoms.
• Medical self-tests.

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Decision Making Knowing when to See a Physician

• Evaluating Symptoms
• Severe
• Unusual
• Persistent
• Recurrent

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When to Get Professional Assistance

• Any Medical Emergency such as
• Major trauma.
• Uncontrollable bleeding.
• Intolerable pain.
• Severe shortness of breath.
• Persistent abdominal pain.
• Poisoning or drug overdose.
• Loss of Consciousness.
• Severe or worsening reaction to an bite, sting or
  medication.

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Self-Treatment Many options

• Watchful waiting.
• NonDrug options
• Self-medication
• OTC
• Generic
• The home pharmacy

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P. 372 Text
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Conventional Medicine

• Standard Western Medicine
• Bio-medicine
• Based on the findings of a variety of biological
  sciences.

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Premises and Assumptions of Conventional
(Western) Medicine

• Every disease is defined by a certain set of
  symptoms
• Pharmaceuticals
• Scientific explanation
• Empirical
• Rational
• Testable

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Providers of Conventional Medicine

• Medical doctors (M.D.)
• Doctors of osteopathic medicine (D.O.)
• Podiatrists (D.P.M.)
• Optometrists (O.D.)
• Dentists (D.D.S.) or (D.M.D.)
• Allied health care providers
• Registered nurses (R.N.), licensed vocational
  nurses (L.V.N.), physical therapists, social
  workers, registered dietitians (R.D.), physician
  assistants (P.A.), nurse practitioners, and
  certified nurse midwives

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Getting The Most Out Of Your Medical Care

• Knowing when to seek professional care.
• Good communication
• The Physician-Patient Partnership
• The Diagnosis Process

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Complementary and Alternative Medicine Balance
is the Expression of Health

• Guiding Principles
• Treat Whole Person
• Do no Harm
• Remove Barriers to healing
• (recognize the natural tendency of the body
  to heal itself)

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Alternative medical systems

• Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).
• Acupuncture
• Herbal therapies
• Homeopathy
• Hypnosis
• Biological-based therapies

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Complementary and Alternative Medicine

• Manipulative and Body-Based Methods.
• Touch and body manipulation
• Massage acupressure
• Rolfing
• Chiropractic
• Energy Therapies
• Therapeutic touch
• Reiki

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5 Domains of CAM Practice P. 380 Text
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Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)-

• The top two causes of disease
• 1. Emotions
• 2. Rich Diet
• Two primary treatments in TCM
• herbal remedies
• acupuncture.

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Herbal Remedies yin and yang
balanced interconnected.

• Acupuncture
• Qi
• excess or deficiency
• regulates spiritual, emotional, mental,
• physical balance
• keep normal flow of energy unblocked
• 12 main energy pathways in the body
• Meridians in Balance Expression of Health

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Homeopathy

• Based on 2 principles
• 1. like cures like
• 2. remedies become more effective with
• greater dilution
• Highly individualized form of therapy.
• Treatment is determined by the overall condition
  of the patient rather than by specific symptoms.

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Mind-Body Interventions

• Integral connection between mind and body
• Meditation yoga visualization tai chi
  biofeedback psychotherapy support groups
  prayer and art, music, and dance therapy.
• The placebo effect is one of the most widely
  known examples of mind-body interdependence.
• Hypnosis

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Biological Based Therapies

• Herbal Remedies, Botanicals, Dietary Supplements
• For the vast majority of botanicals, there are
  almost no reliable research findings on efficacy
  and safety.

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Manipulative and Body Based Therapies

• The most commonly accepted CAM
• manual healing method is chiropractic
• Chiropractic (spinal manipulation) has been shown
  to be effective in acute low back pain and has
  shown promising results neck pain and headaches

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Energy Therapies

• Therapeutic touch
• Reiki
• Bioelectromagnetics

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National Center for Complementaryand Alternative
Medicine NCCAM

• http//nccam.nih.gov/
• Health Information
• CAM Clinical Trials
• Treatment Information
• News and Events

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Integrative Medicine

• Employs rigors of modern science with
• most beneficial CAM procedures
• Customized approach
• Collaboration of both disciplines
• National Center for Complementary Medicine
  (NCCAM)
• Created in 1998 under the auspices of National
  Institutes of Health Projected 2005 budget
  exceeds 121. million.

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Models of Integrative Medicine

• University of Arizonas Medical School
• Program in Integrative Medicine established in
  1994. Prospective Health Care Model
• Health Coach
• Duke University Center for Integrative Medicine
• Weill -Cornell Center for Integrative Medicine
  (NY)
• Strang-Cornell Cancer Prevention Center

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Thank You!