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Complementary Therapies Risks - Articles
Complementary therapy helping boy with rare disorder
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GoToSee
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Fri 17 Oct 2008 5:47am
It’s probably not an alternative medicine and complementary therapy treatment that most of us have heard of but ‘Hippotherapy’ is helping a young boy from Wales with a rare genetic disorder overcome some of his problems.
Hippotherapy is physiotherapy on horseback and four year-old Dyfan Wynne from Wrexham is benefiting from the treatment.
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Study shows complementary therapy effective for child anxiety
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GoToSee
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Wed 05 Nov 2008 4:56am
A new study has identified Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (a complementary therapy) as being the most effective way of treating children suffering with anxiety disorders.
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) is a form of psychotherapy and this latest research used a combination of CBT with medication, and each treatment individually, to find which ...
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Men with prostate cancer use complementary therapy
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GoToSee
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Mon 22 Sep 2008 11:03am
The latest UK research has discovered that the use of complementary therapy among men with prostate cancer is commonplace.
Researchers have also found that many patients don't let their doctors know about the therapy which is recommended given the potential risk of interaction with traditional medication.
The research involved a survey of ...
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Diary/Complementary therapy/feeling sad
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bluesilk
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Wed 04 Nov 2009 10:06pm
Feeling rather unmotivated today. It’s Halloween tomorrow; I like Halloween. Still feel sad. If I were standing outside myself I might come upto myself, grab myself by the shoulders, shake profusely, and bellow ‘what the hell is the matter with you?’
I have a feeling my response would be a subdued ‘don’t really know…’
One thing I ...
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Complementary therapy in childbirth proving popular
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GoToSee
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Mon 22 Sep 2008 11:03am
Complementary therapy use during childbirth is proving to be "increasingly popular", according to a new report by the Association of Radical Midwives.
Due to complementary therapy's increased interest, more maternity wards in the UK are now offering complementary therapies but experts say that this should be in addition to conventional treatment ...
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Complementary therapy for osteoarthritis sufferers
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GoToSee
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Mon 22 Sep 2008 11:03am
A form of Traditional Chinese Medicine called Qigong therapy has been revealed as a potential complementary therapy treatment for osteoarthritis, according to a new study.
Arthritis is one of the common causes of disability across the world and increasingly more patients are turning to alternative medicine and complementary therapy treatments ...
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Gambling addiction clinic offers complementary therapy
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GoToSee
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Thu 27 Nov 2008 10:55am
With an estimated quarter of million people suffering with a gambling addiction, the NHS have opened their first clinic to treat gamblers with complementary therapy and debt management.
Opened in Soho, West London, The National Problem Gambling Clinic will run for a year with addicts undergoing psychotherapy sessions and getting advice from d ...
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Eating disorders helped by complementary therapy
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GoToSee
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Sat 20 Dec 2008 6:39pm
Talking therapies such as CBT could be the best hope for people with eating disorders, according to new UK research.
The complementary therapy ‘Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)’ may work in four out of five eating disorder cases by releasing people from their obsessive feelings and behaviour.
The study carried out by the University of Oxf ...
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Yoga as a Complementary Therapy
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Diane C.
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Fri 04 Sep 2009 9:01am
What started out as being seen as an esoteric practice that was relegated to the hippie generation (and later defined as the sport of the affluent), yoga is now a force in the world of complementary therapy. Where the Chiropractic discipline once tread is now the stomping ground of yoga and yoga therapy (as well as meditation). Despite the fact ...
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