Wainapel Stanley F., Fast Avital (eds.) Alternative Medicine and Rehabilitation: A Guide for Practitioners

Demos Medical, 2003. — 416 p. — ISBN: 9781888799668The book has organized the chapters into categories that emphasize their kinship with the specialty of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: manipulation, therapeutic movement, mind-body techniques, and physical modalities. Subsequent sections deal with research and reimbursement, while the final chapters highlight specific therapies in the clinical management of several common disabling disorders.This book will be of considerable interest to a wide range of medical specialists, particularly those who treat chronic or painful disabling diseases: physiatrists, neurologists, rheumatologists, orthopedists, neurosurgeons, anesthesiologists, internists, and primary care physicians. Additionally, physical and occupational therapists, psychologists, chiropractors, and herbalists will find its contents useful. Finally, practitioners of any of the individual therapies included in the contents will find a wealth of scientific and clinical documentation to utilize in their practices.Manipulative Therapies
Physiologic Basis of Manipulation
The Efficacy of Manipulative Treatment
Chiropractic Therapy in the Rehabilitation of Neuromuscular Disease
Massage as a form of Complementary and Alternative Healing Modality for Physical Manipulation
Tai Chi Chuan
Yoga in Medicine
The Alexander Technique
Mind-Body Therapies
Prayer, Meditation, and Spirituality
Biofeedback as an Adjunct in Rehabilitation Medicine
Clinical Hypnosis
Miscellaneous Therapies
Acupuncture: From Qi to Biomedical Science
Nutritional Therapy in Rehabilitation
Research and Practice Issues
Research Program of the NIH Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Stroke and Neurological Disorders: 1995-2000
Reading the Complementary and Alternative Medicine Literature
Paying for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Low Back Pain: An Integrative Treatment Approach
Alternative Therapies for Complications of Diabetes Mellitus
Qi Gong Exercise in the Treatment of Cumulative Trauma Disorder
Clinical Applications of Magnetic Therapy for Neuropathic Pain