SCI 201 Week 1 Individual Assignment / CAM Therapeutic Modalities Paper

Resource: NCCAM website located at http://nccam.nih.gov/

 

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper that describes an overview of CAM and its categories of treatments. The following areas should be addressed:

 

·         Define the terms alternative medicine, complementary medicine, and integrative medicine and clarify how these terms differ.

 

·         Describe how conventional medicine plays a role in these three terms.

 

·         Review the philosophy of CAM and how it relates to or is different from conventional Western medicine.

 

·         Describe the five domains of therapies according the NCCAM website.

 

·         Research and describe one CAM treatment modality within one of the five NCCAM domains and provide an example of how such a therapy could be used as an alternative therapy, a complementary therapy, and an integrative therapy for a specific medical condition. Explain how each example meets the definition of alternative, complementary, or integrative therapy and support the rationale for each of your selections.

 

Note . Include three examples in the completed assignment.

 

·         Include the results of scientific studies, if available, that show a clinical benefit from the examples selected.

 

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

 

820 Words

5 Sources in APA format