Chapter 15: Consumerism & Complementary & Integrative Health Care Choices

True/False: In terms of health care, self-care consists of knowing your body, paying attention to its signals, and taking appropriate action to stop the progression of the illness or injury.

Which of the following illnesses or injuries would not merit a consultation with a physician?

Which is not an example of self-care?

True/False: If you have any doubt about a recommended treatment, you should get a second opinion from a totally different practice.

________ medicine is based on the premise that illness is a result of exposure to harmful environmental agents, such as infectious microorganisms and pollutants, or organic changes in the body.

True/False: A physician assistant is a certified medical doctor with license to carry out the duties of a medical doctor.

________ medicine is used together with conventional medicine as part of a modern integrative-medicine approach. An example would be the use of massage therapy along with prescription medicine to treat anxiety.

Complementary and alternative medical therapies incorporate a(n) ________ approach to medicine that focuses on treating the whole person rather than just an isolated part of the body.

________ medicine views disease as a manifestation of the body's effort to ward off impurities and harmful substances from the environment, with the emphasis of restoring health rather than curing disease.

________ is an unconventional western system based on the principle "like cures like"; the same substances that in large doses produce the symptoms of an illness will, in very small doses, cure the illness.

A manipulative body-based type of complementary and alternative therapy that is based on the idea that a life-giving energy flows through the spine by way of the nervous system, and that if the spine is partly misaligned, that force is disrupted is known as ________.

________ is defined as soft-tissue manipulation by trained therapists for relaxation and healing.

One of the oldest forms of traditional Chinese medicine, utilized for a variety of health conditions, involves stimulating anatomical points of the body with a series of precisely placed needles and is known as ________.

Common functional foods designed to improve specific aspects of physical or mental functioning are referred to as ________ for their combined nutritional and pharmaceutical benefit.

________ drugs, medications sold under a chemical name rather than a brand name, contain the same active ingredients as brand name drugs but are less expensive.