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WorksheetsComplementary & Alternative Medicine Pretest
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 6mins
Holistic health care involves treating patients as people who have many aspects to their lives, not just labeling them regarding their reason for hospitalization.
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Western, or allopathic, medicine bases its approach to disease and illness on the idea that foreign invaders, such as antigens, viruses, and bacteria, cause illness and must be treated with medications or surgery.
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Eastern medicine, and many types of CAM, see disease or illness as a deviation from normal, healthy function and symptoms as warning signs of underlying imbalance. Illness is caused by anything that interferes with the balance and movement of bioenergy, including diet, lifestyle, trauma, environmental toxins, and stress.
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The mind, body, and spirit all are connected and all must be treated. Practitioners of CAM emphasize these connections and believe that the body has the inherent nature to heal itself if given the correct support.
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Many different herbal supplements are used for a variety of reasons. They can interfere with medications, so question patients about their use of herbal supplements to determine potential interactions.
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In holistic health care, the emphasis is on the uniqueness of each individual and the interaction among:
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health, environment, and disease
mind, body, and spirit
herbs, chiropractic, and massage
Western medicine, allopathic medicine, and CAM
Which is true of alternative medicine and complementary medicine?
They mean the same thing and are simply different than conventional treatment.
They cost more than traditional medicine but may be more effective.
Access to these medicines is limited, so few people can use them.
Alternative medicine is used instead of complementary medicine.
Complementary medicine is used with traditional medicine.
You see a patient while in clinical at a walk-in clinic. This patient has occasional abdominal pain of unknown cause but otherwise is in good health. The doctor suggests blood work and a computed tomography scan of the abdomen to diagnose the cause. The patient says he wants to wait, see his acupuncturist, and give his body the opportunity to heal itself. What is your response?
Tell the patient that he MUST follow through with the doctor’s orders.
Express strong disapproval of this plan, both verbally and nonverbally.
Encourage the patient to act quickly and return if the pain persists.
Explain that the body cannot heal itself and requires a doctor’s intervention to heal.
A patient says he wants to go to a chiropractor to see if it will help his low back pain because medical treatment has been ineffective. How might you respond?
“Some studies have shown chiropractic to be an effective treatment for low back pain.”
“You would do better to stick with a real doctor.”
“I am not allowed to discuss alternative or complementary medicine with you.”
“You need to ask your medical doctor for permission to do that.”
Which conditions could cause massage to be contraindicated for a patient?
A history of blood clots
Older than 80 years
Certain heart conditions
Taking medications to lower cholesterol
Osteoporosis
