Complementary Therapies in Neurology: An Evidence-Based Approach
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Format: Hardcover
From: Informa Healthcare
Pub. Date: November 2003
From: Informa Healthcare
Pub. Date: November 2003
Product Details:
Catalog: Book
Release Date: 2003-12-02
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Pages: 458
Ean: 9781842142004
Isbn: 1842142003
Catalog: Book
Release Date: 2003-12-02
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Pages: 458
Ean: 9781842142004
Isbn: 1842142003
ABOUT THE BOOK
EDITORIAL REVIEW
Drawing upon the knowledge of expert contributors, Complementary Therapies in Neurology: An Evidence-Based Approach provides an introduction to CAM therapies and how a clinician might use them in the treatment of specific neurologic diseases. Informally divided into two sections, the book explores empirically testable theories about the mechanisms of action involved on CAM modalities. The first section reviews commonly used CAM therapies that have some scientific basis and rationale for their use in neurological disorders including botanicals, manipulative and body-based therapies, mind-body therapies, and alternative medicine systems. The editor has placed discussions of spirituality and placebo effect in separate chapters. His choice of topics is based on the amount of evidence available and how often the therapies are used. The second section supplies an evidence-based overview of the clinical applications of these therapies organized by neurological disease states. Discussing common neurologic problems such as headache, neck and back pain, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, and dementia, this section follows the structure of conventional neurology textbooks and reviews the relevant evidence in a conventional manner. Written by physicians for physicians, this book is the first choice for information on alternative and complementary therapies in clinical neurology. The book provides current scientifically based evidence on which CAM therapies are useful, which ones may be useful, and which ones are not useful.
USER REVIEWS
"Truly there are in Medicine, Neurology and the no man's land between this and Psychiatry some unknown facets that escape to traditional therapeutics. This book deals with Alternative Medicines or methods of healing. The book is very complete, but it's not easy to judge the utility of these therapies, because some, as Ayurvedic Medicine, presuppose I think, at least the assumption by both patient and physician of these strange principles and furthermore, that religion. Perhaps in the USA, with his big population, is possible to find such people, but that is practically unknown in other western countries.
Hypnosis is another damp ground that I have never had clear in mind. Yoga, Ostheopaty, Chiropractic, massage and acupuncture are methods that seems to work more or less, if the professional is competent. I don't believe this was to heal diseases so grave as multiple sclerosis, but I have found relief of pain in headaches and low back pain from undetermined origin. I recognize also, religion is a comfort for the believer and even there are cases of complete healing although very rare. Summing up I don't confide very much in this methods, but if one has yet many years of practice as physician one has to concede sometimes there are things unexplainable according official medicine, with the mental reserve that these are prone to work also in illnesses that contains a big amount of dark origin as some epilepsies or convulsive crisis, headaches and so on. Perhaps the future science and physiology teach us some more about the truth of this methods. The book is worth and makes not proselytism of any of these procedures. A professional must have, if not an impossible knowledge, common sense enough to decide.
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~ Written on 2007-01-31
Hypnosis is another damp ground that I have never had clear in mind. Yoga, Ostheopaty, Chiropractic, massage and acupuncture are methods that seems to work more or less, if the professional is competent. I don't believe this was to heal diseases so grave as multiple sclerosis, but I have found relief of pain in headaches and low back pain from undetermined origin. I recognize also, religion is a comfort for the believer and even there are cases of complete healing although very rare. Summing up I don't confide very much in this methods, but if one has yet many years of practice as physician one has to concede sometimes there are things unexplainable according official medicine, with the mental reserve that these are prone to work also in illnesses that contains a big amount of dark origin as some epilepsies or convulsive crisis, headaches and so on. Perhaps the future science and physiology teach us some more about the truth of this methods. The book is worth and makes not proselytism of any of these procedures. A professional must have, if not an impossible knowledge, common sense enough to decide.
"
~ Written on 2007-01-31