2. There are several definitions out there, because it is a field that is very broad and constantly changing. The groups within the CAM practices are very diverse and are found within numerous types of medical and health systems.1

3. It refers to areas of medicine that are not traditional to conventional medicine. Conventional medicines are what we know today with imaging, prescription medications, hospitalizations, etc…the ways in which traditionally society is known to search with illness or injury.

4. -make a list with the class of a bunch of different types of practices within the conventional medicines, how they differ from what CAM might promote

5. What does complementary medicine mean?

6. -It means together with conventional medicine

7. -based on the list we just made, what might you guess to be types of complementary medicines…

8. Example: acupuncture

9. What do you know about acupuncture?

10. What is alternative medicine? What are the differences from complementary? Think about the adjective that describes “medicine” in each phrase. What do you think?

11. The basics: Who and where

12. Origins of CAM. Where did the first practices come from?

13. -Ancient Chinese medicines, Rolf structural integrations, Ayervedic medicines…2

14. Poets, philosophers and scientists of the late 18th and 19th centuries were all interested in various aspects of energy, which later was termed to be vitalism2. Example: Benjamin Franklin and his “taming lightning”. He was very curious regarding the types of energy that animated life and the universe. (Go into this more…use Micozzi text for examples)

16. Break down CAM into categories:

17. Natural products

18. Dietary supplements

19. -What do you think?

20. Mind-body practices

21. Meditation

22. Yoga

23. Acupuncture

24. *others…tai chi, deep-breathing exercises, imagery,

25. Hypnotherapy, gi gong, progressive relaxation

26. Manipulative and body-based practices

27. Chiropractics

29. Micozzi, Marc. Fundamentals of Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 3rd edition. Saunders & /Elsevier Publications. Copyright 2006.