Complementary & Alternative Medicine
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Evidence-Based Medicine - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅An approach to health care that
promotes the collection, interpretation, and integration of best research-based evidence in
making decisions about the care of individual patients.
Holistic Medicine - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅An approach to medicine that considers not
only physical health but also the emotional, spiritual, social, and psychological well-being of
the person.
Alternative Medicine - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅A broad range of health care practices
that are not taught in medical schools, not generally used in hospitals, and not usually
reimbursed by insurance companies.
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅The use and
practice of therapies or diagnostic techniques that fall outside conventional biomedicine.
Mind-body interventions - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Techniques designed to affect the
mind's capacity to influence bodily functions&symptoms. Meditation, hypnosis, prayer,
music or art therapy.
What are the 5 Domains of CAM? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅1. Alternative medical
systems
2. mind-body interventions
3. Biologically based therapies
4. manipulative & body-based therapies
5. energy therapies.
Alternative medical systems - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Traditional chinese medicines
(Aryuveda- oldest known). Homeopathy(home remedies in a particular culture)
, Biologically based therapies - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Either natural or biological
interventions, herbal supplements, Atkins diet, designed to intervene at a biological level or
some natural supplement. Adding something to the body to change the way the body works.
Manipulative & Body-Based therapies - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Techniques that focus
primarily on the structures and systems of body, including the bones & joints, soft tissues,
and circulatory and lymphatic systems. (Massage therapy, Chiropractor)
Energy Therapies - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Therapeutic touch, magnets, other types of
therapies for practitioners by helping change the energy fields inside/outside the body by
using physical touch.
Ideals of CAM - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅1. To provide health treatment that is natural,
holistic, and that promotes wellness
2. "Back-to-back" backlash against modern technology science, biomedicine.
3. Overspecialization & fragmentation of modern medicine.
4. Biomedicine may fight illness but generally doesn't focus on producing an optimal state of
vitality.
Integrative Medicine - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅The combination of biomedical
interventions with complementary and alternative techniques.
- A multidisciplinary approach to medicine that involves traditional biomedical interventions,
as well as complementary and alternative medical practices that have been proven both safe
and effective
Vitalism - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Concept of a general life force, popular in some
varieties of complementary and alternative medicine. "Chi" Idea is going from a wellness
standpoint as opposed to an absent standpoint.
Traditional Oriental (Chinese) Medicine - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅An ancient, integrated
herb and acupuncture based system of healing founded on the principle that internal harmony
is essential for good health.
Case Studies - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅See how a person goes on a particular level,
going to look very different rather than on a large scale study.
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Evidence-Based Medicine - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅An approach to health care that
promotes the collection, interpretation, and integration of best research-based evidence in
making decisions about the care of individual patients.
Holistic Medicine - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅An approach to medicine that considers not
only physical health but also the emotional, spiritual, social, and psychological well-being of
the person.
Alternative Medicine - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅A broad range of health care practices
that are not taught in medical schools, not generally used in hospitals, and not usually
reimbursed by insurance companies.
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅The use and
practice of therapies or diagnostic techniques that fall outside conventional biomedicine.
Mind-body interventions - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Techniques designed to affect the
mind's capacity to influence bodily functions&symptoms. Meditation, hypnosis, prayer,
music or art therapy.
What are the 5 Domains of CAM? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅1. Alternative medical
systems
2. mind-body interventions
3. Biologically based therapies
4. manipulative & body-based therapies
5. energy therapies.
Alternative medical systems - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Traditional chinese medicines
(Aryuveda- oldest known). Homeopathy(home remedies in a particular culture)
, Biologically based therapies - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Either natural or biological
interventions, herbal supplements, Atkins diet, designed to intervene at a biological level or
some natural supplement. Adding something to the body to change the way the body works.
Manipulative & Body-Based therapies - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Techniques that focus
primarily on the structures and systems of body, including the bones & joints, soft tissues,
and circulatory and lymphatic systems. (Massage therapy, Chiropractor)
Energy Therapies - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Therapeutic touch, magnets, other types of
therapies for practitioners by helping change the energy fields inside/outside the body by
using physical touch.
Ideals of CAM - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅1. To provide health treatment that is natural,
holistic, and that promotes wellness
2. "Back-to-back" backlash against modern technology science, biomedicine.
3. Overspecialization & fragmentation of modern medicine.
4. Biomedicine may fight illness but generally doesn't focus on producing an optimal state of
vitality.
Integrative Medicine - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅The combination of biomedical
interventions with complementary and alternative techniques.
- A multidisciplinary approach to medicine that involves traditional biomedical interventions,
as well as complementary and alternative medical practices that have been proven both safe
and effective
Vitalism - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Concept of a general life force, popular in some
varieties of complementary and alternative medicine. "Chi" Idea is going from a wellness
standpoint as opposed to an absent standpoint.
Traditional Oriental (Chinese) Medicine - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅An ancient, integrated
herb and acupuncture based system of healing founded on the principle that internal harmony
is essential for good health.
Case Studies - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅See how a person goes on a particular level,
going to look very different rather than on a large scale study.
