COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE

Lee ShippHW499 Section 01 – Bachelors Capstone In Health &

WellnessProfessor: Edward Eaves

Kaplan UniversityAugust 10, 2013

Introduction

Welcome everyone to Complementary and Alternative Medicine~

Instructor: Lee Shipp- Health and Wellness Coach

What is CAM?

What are your first thoughts that come to when you hear the term Complementary and Alternative Medicine?

What does this term mean “Complementary and Alternative Medicine”?

What is CAM?

Complementary and alternative medicine, as defined by NCCAM, is a group of diverse medical and health care systems, practices, and products that are not presently considered to be part of conventional medicine.

What Types of CAM?

Five Major Types of CAM

The five major types of complementary and alternative medicine are as followed: Alternative Medical Systems

Mind-Body Interventions

Biologically Based Therapies

Manipulative and Body-Based Methods

Energy Therapies

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Alternative Medical SystemsMIND-BODY

INTERVENTIONS

Alternative medical systems are built upon complete systems of theory and practice. Often, these systems have evolved apart from and earlier than the conventional medical approach used in the United States.

Mind-body medicine uses a variety of techniques designed to enhance the mind’s capacity to affect bodily function and symptoms. Techniques such as patient support groups and cognitive-behavioral therapy.

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Biologically Based TherapiesManipulative and Body-Based

Methods

Biologically based therapies in CAM use substances found in nature, such as herbs, foods, and vitamins.

Manipulative and body-based methods in CAM are based upon manipulation and /or movement of one or more parts of the body.

Five Major Types of CAM

Energy Therapies The foundation of Energy

Therapies consists of energy fields, which there are two types.

Biofield Therapies- Intends to affect energy fields that purportedly surround and penetrate the human body.

Bioelectromagnetic-based Therapies-It involves the unconventional use of electromagnetic fields, such as pulsed fields, magnetic fields, or alternating-current or even direct-current fields.

Questions

Massage and Touch Therapies

Class II

Massage What are your first

thoughts that come to when you hear the term Massage and Touch Therapies?

What does this term mean “Massage and Touch Therapies”?

Massage What has your

experience been like upon massages?

If you haven’t experienced massage therapies, would you? Why or why not?

Massage

According to Fritz, “Women made early and important contributions to the development of massage and medical gymnastics, primarily in the United States. Contemporary massage has been influenced extensively by women, and 70% to 75% of practicing massage professionals today are women. Two women physicians conducted the first controlled clinical trial of the benefits of massage in the management of disease. Dr. Mary P. Jacobi and Dr. Victoria A. White were professors of medicine in New York City in 1880”(pg.18, 2004).

The Five Basic Techniques

EFFLEURAGE PETRISSAGE

Effleurage is the beginning process upon the massage. Effleurage is a gliding stroke applied with light to moderate pressure (superficial or deep), serving to modulate the arterial supply and venous and lymphatic drainage of the tissues contacted.

Petrissage is more of a vigorous form of technique compare to effleurage technique. According to Micozzi, “Petrissage is somewhat more aggressive than effleurage, with the thumb and fingers working together to lift and “milk” the underlying fascia and muscles in a kneading motion”(2011).

The Five Basic Techniques

FRICTION TAPOTEMENT

The Friction technique can be the most deeply applied massage preformed thus far in the field of CAM, because of the use of the finger tips or thumb in an back and forth movement.

The Tapotement technique involves rapid, repeated blows upon using the sides of the palms of the hands with the hands cupped.

Tapotement is also called Percussion.

The Five Basic Techniques

VIBRATION

The Vibration technique is not only one of the most draining techniques for the therapist, but it’s the most difficult technique to master or perform.

What Is Shiatsu?

As expected, “The literal meaning of the Japanese word shiatsu (she-AAHT-sue) is “finger pressure” or “thumb pressure.” Over the centuries, Asian medicine, massage therapy, and twentieth-century advancements have combined to yield “modern” shiatsu”(pg.280, Micozzi, 2011).

Field Trip (Video): What is Shiatsu?

What Is Shiatsu Anma Therapy?

According to Micozzi, “Shiatsu anma therapy uses a unique blending of two of the most popular Asian bodywork forms practiced in Japan. Dr. Kaneko introduced traditional anma massage therapy based on the energetic system of traditional Chinese medicine in long form and contemporary pressure therapy, which is based on the neuromusculoskeletal system, in short form.

Field Trip (Video): Shiatsu Master-Kimura Sensei’s

Questions

Aromatherapy

Class III

What is Aromatherapy? According to Micozzi,

“Aromatherapy may be defined as the selected use of essential oils and related products of plant origin with the general goal of improving health and well-being. The word aromatherpie was first used in 1937 by the French perfumer and chemist Rene Maurice Gatterfosse (1881-1950), who, along with pioneers Jean Valnet (1920-199 and Marguerite Maury (1895-1968), is largely credited with the modern revival of interest in the use of essential oils for therapeutic purposes”(pg.332, 2011).

What is Aromatherapy?

For more than over 20 years the use of essential oils has evolved and their benefits formed upon different styles of aromatherapy.

In modern-day aromatherapy, the therapist uses these fragrant and active substances to affect the body-mind such as aromatic medicine or medical aromatherapy. According to Micozzi, “Aromatic medicine, or medical aromatherapy, has its origins in phytotherapy and largely arises, is taught, and is practiced in European countries such as Germany and France where only those who are licensed medical professionals are legally permitted to practice” (2011).

What is Aromatherapy?

Field Trip (Video): What Is Aromatherapy? (4:50) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtd2CuGgaD4

The Benefits of Aromatherapy

The immense psychophysiological potenial of essential oils is due to three elements Essential oils are fragrant

substances Essential oils are

pharmacologically active Essential oils are able to impact

the individual at a subtle or vibrational level

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What is Holistic Aromatherapy?

According to Micozzi, “Holistic aromatherapy usually combines essential oils with body massage, and this application remains the main form of aromatherapy as taught and practiced worldwide, with at least 6000 aromatherapists practicing in the United Kingdom alone” (pg.333, 2011). One of my favorite characteristics of this holistic aromatherapy is self-care and home use of essential oils between therapy sessions is usually actively promoted.

Questions

References: Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)? Received 9/4/13

from http://cim.ucdavis.edu/clubs/camsig/whatiscam.pdf

Fritz, S. MS. (2004). Mosby’s Fundamentals of Therapeutic Massage (3rd Edition)

Howcast. (2013). What Is Shiatsu Massage? Received on 9/4/13 from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYWSySDHc20

Micozzi, M.S. (2011). Fundamentals of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (4th ed.)

National Center For Complementary And Alternative Medicine. (2013). What Is

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