SCI 201 Week 1 CAM Therapeutic Modalities Paper

Resource:  NCCIH website

Write a 900 to 1,200 word paper that describes an overview of CAM and its categories of treatments.

Include the following in your paper:

• Compare and contrast conventional current regulations and oversights that exist in the United States with that of nonconventional medicine.

• Define the terms alternative, complementary, and integrative in relation to medicine and clarify how these terms are different.

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

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

• Describe how NCCIH classifies Complementary Health Approaches.

• Select one CAM treatment therapy (modality) from among the complementary health approaches and describe it.

• Using one medical condition, describe 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 one or more scientific studies that show a clinical benefit or do not show a benefit from the medical condition selected.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines and post your completed paper as a Microsoft Word document.  Use at least 3 to 5 different references in your paper.

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