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Therapy P&P
Potter and Perry 7th Edition Chapter 36
Question | Answer |
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General health of N. America has improved because of? | Science, technology, and medicine. |
Allopathic medicine define. | Traditional western medicine such as pain relievers, antibiotics, and surgical procedures. |
Unconventional therapies are referred to as? | Complementary or Alternative Medicine (CAM) therapy. |
What are some examples of Complementary therapies? | Therapeutic touch, guided imagery, breathwork, relaxation, exercise, prayer, hypnotherapy, creative therapies, meditiation... ect. |
Alternative therapies include? | Chiropractic measures, acupuncture, Chinese medicine, ayurvedic meds, or shamanism. |
Integrated medical programs are what? | Both allopathic and complementary medicine being taught and practiced by practitioners. |
Which groups of people are more likely to get CAM therapies and why? | Professional, well educated, from higher socioeconomic standing... most of the payment is out of pocket because insurance coverage is limited. |
What is the NCCAM? | National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, they facilitate the evaluation of these therapies and provide information to the public. |
What are some conditions/effects of long term stress on the body? | Angina, tension headaches, cardiac arrhythmia, pain, ulcers, and atrophy of immune system organs. |
What physiological changes happened during relaxation therapy? | Elongation of muscle fibers, reduction of neutral impulses, decreases activity of the brain, decreased heart & resp rates, bp, O2 consumption, increased alpha brain activity, and peripheral skin temperature. |
Relaxation therapy help develop what cognitive skills? | Focusing, passivity, and receptivity. |
Progressive relaxation helps by? | Teaches how to effectively rest and reduce tension in the body. |
Passive relaxation helps by and who? | Teaches how to relax individual muscle groups, useful for people that muscle contraction/energy expenditure is discomforting or exhausting. |
Relaxation is important technique because? | It allows clients to exert some control over their situations. |
Meditation define. | Any activity that limits stimulus input by directing attention to a single unchanging or repetitive stimulus. |
Meditation can help improve conditions for whom? | Asthmatics with breathing patterns and Hypertension clients with lowering bp. |
Who else can benefit from these from a relaxation stand point? | AIDS and cancer patients, depression suffers, battered women, and clients with lower back pain. |
Meditation should be avoided with what drugs? | Antihypertensive, thyroid-regulating, antidepressant, and antianxiety. |
Imagery what is? | Use the conscious mind to creat mental images to stimulate physical changes in the body, perceived well-being, or enhance self-awareness. |
Biofeedback techniques are what? | Use of electronic or electromechanical instruments to measure, process, and provide info to the client about their physiological activity. |
Therapeutic touch is what? | Training specific therapy involves the practitioner using their hands to find areas of congested "energy" or tension and using massage to bring their "energies" into balance. |
How many phases are there to therapeutic touch and what are they called? | 5 phases: Centering, assessing, unruffling, treating, and evaluating. |
Chiropractic therapy is what? | Manual art of healing that involves spinal manipulation of joints beyond its active ROM. |
Contraindications of chiropractic therapy include what? | Acute myelopathy, fractures, dislocations, rheumatoid arthritis, and osteoporosis. |
Traditional Chinese Medicine includes what? | Use of herbs, acupuncture, moxibustion, diet, exercise, and meditiation. |
What is Yin and yang? | Opposing yet complementary phenomena that exist in a state of dynamic equilibrium. |
Yin represents? | Shade, cold, and inhibition... inner parts of the body such as viscera, liver, heart, spleen, lung. |
Yang represents? | Fire, light, and excitement... outer body such as bowels, stomach, and bladder. |
Qi (chi) is what? | Vital energy of the human body. |
Meridians are what? | The regular patterns in which energy flows through and over the body. |
How many primary and secondary channels of qi are there? | 12 primary and 8 secondary. |
Acupoints are what? | Locations along the primary and secondary qi channels where needles can be inserted to influence the flow of energy. |
The five elements that are components of Chinese medicine include what? | Earth, metal, water, wood, fire. |
What does acupuncture help treat? | Lower back pain, myofascial pain, headaches, migraines, sciatica, shoulder pain, tennis elbow, osteoarthritis, whiplash, and sprains. |
When should acupuncture be contraindicated? | Bleeding disorders, thrombocytopenia, skin infections. No semi-permanent needles in valvular heart disease. No electroap with pacemaker, cardiac arrhythmias, epilepsy, or pregnancy. |
Herbal therapy is what? | Oldest medicine known to man, uses various herbs, minerals, and animal substances to cure or treat various illnesses. |
Goal of herbal therapy is? | To promote self-healing in order to restore internal balance. |