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attachedAlternative MedicineAssignment Wk 1 - CAM Therapeutic Modalities Paper [due Mon] Assignment Content There is more to CAM than many think, and it actually works in conjunction with conventional medicine more  than is widely acknowledged. There are CAM therapies available for ailments that many believe only  conventional medicine can heal. Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper that describes an overview of CAM and its categories of treatments. Ensure  you:  • Compare and contrast current conventional medicine regulations and oversights with regulation  and oversight of alternative medicine in the United States. • Define the terms alternative, complementary, and integrative in relation to medicine and discuss  how these terms differ from one another. • Describe how conventional medicine plays a role in alternative, complementary, and  integrative medicine. • Discuss the philosophy of CAM and how it is similar to or different from the approach of  conventional Western medicine. • Select one CAM therapy from among the alternative medicine approaches and describe how it  can be used to treat a medical condition you choose. Include discussion of how your chosen  therapy can be used as an alternative, a complementary, or an integrative therapy for that specific  medical condition. • Include the results of at least one scientific study that show a clinical benefit from the therapy you  selected.  Use at least one reference in addition to NCCIH. Format your paper according to APA guidelines. For assistance with APA and other subjects, please refer to the University of Phoenix Writing and Style Guide (https://ecampus.phoenix.edu/secure/aapd/cwe/style.htm). Submit your assignment. Resources: • Center for Writing Excellence (https://ecampus.phoenix.edu/classroom/ic/cwe/home.aspx) • Reference and Citation Generator  (https://ecampus.phoenix.edu/secure/aapd/cwe/citation_generator/) • Grammar and Writing Guides  (https://ecampus.phoenix.edu/secure/aapd/grammar/writingStyle.asp) • Learning Team Toolkit (https://ecampus.phoenix.edu/content/material/materialhandler.aspx? contentTypeID=1&urlSource=https://www apollolibrary com/LTT/lttauth aspx) × Save and Close Submit https://ecampus.phoenix.edu/secure/aapd/cwe/style.htm https://ecampus.phoenix.edu/classroom/ic/cwe/home.aspx https://ecampus.phoenix.edu/secure/aapd/cwe/citation_generator/ https://ecampus.phoenix.edu/secure/aapd/grammar/writingStyle.asp https://ecampus.phoenix.edu/content/material/materialhandler.aspx?contentTypeID=1&urlSource=https://www.apollolibrary.com/LTT/lttauth.aspx

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Traditional/ Conventional therapy:
Traditional medicines are the conventional therapy where the practioners focus on a particular organ by treating it with either the use of drugs or surgery and it was proven experimentally for its safe and effective.
Alternative, Complementary, and Integrative Therapy:
The term alternate therapies is categorised with complementary therapy under CAM. Whereas, the alternate therapies  are non-traditional focus on the cause, prevention and overall health. This alternate therapies has gained importance in US and the advantages are the alternate therapies are less expensive and use natural remedies for treatment [1]. The  usage of alternative therapies in United States has increased d from 33.8% to 42.1 % in 1990 [1].The most common alternative therapies in use are prayer, yoga, nutritional diet therapies, meditation, relaxation etc.
The alternate therapies lack experimental evidence complementary therapy is the usage of the allopathy medicine used in combination with the traditional therapies whereas the alternative medicine is the alternate approach used in place of conventional therapy. The integrative medicine is the combination of complementary therapies with conventional care [1].
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)
The term "complementary and alternative medicine" CAM itself represents it as an alternative to conventional medicine[2]. CAM constitutes distinct health care practices, medical products and therapies. Different CAM practices like Ayurveda have been in use from the past and in recent days many CAM practices like electrotherapy have dramatically emerged.

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