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Parish Nurse Notes – Question of the Month

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

What is CAM? continued again…   As I stated in last month’s Pioneer, this month I will describe the rest of the different kinds of Complementary therapies.  They are:   Massage Therapy:  Massage therapy is defined as the manual manipulation of soft body tissues to enhance health and well-being.  Soft body tissues include muscle, connective [...]

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Question of the Month

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

What is CAM?   CAM stands for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.  It is also called alternative medicine, complementary therapies, integrative medicine and holistic therapies; but it all means the same thing:  a wide range of healing practices that fall outside purely pharmaceutical or surgical treatments.  It used to be that CAM was not taught in [...]

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