INTRODUCTION TO COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES

Objectives

What determines health?

What are complementary therapies?

Underlying complementary therapy philosophy

Underlying complementary therapy philosophy

US National Institute of Health CAM categories

Who uses complementary therapies? (1 of 2)

Who uses complementary therapies? (2 of 2)

Different ways people use CAM

Frequency of CAM use

Activity

Why do people with diabetes use CAM?

Hypoglycaemic herbal medicine

Plants and their effect on plasma glucose

“Diabetes formulas”

Nutritional medicine - “food as medicine”

Antioxidants

Activity

Conventional practitioner concerns

about CAM use

Complementary practitioner concerns

Important issues that affect safe CAM use

Important issues (1 of 3)

Important issues (2 of 3)

Important issues (3 of 3)

Adverse events associated with CAM used by people with diabetes

Adverse events associated with CAM used by people with diabetes

Are there any benefits for people with diabetes? (1 of 2)

Are there any benefits for people with diabetes? (2 of 2)

Core elements of integratingcomplementary and conventional

care

Core elements of integrating complementary and conventional

care

Core elements of integration

What is needed?

Information for people with diabetes (1 of 2)

Information for people with diabetes (2 of 2)

Activity or self-reflection (1 of 2)

Activity or self-reflection (2 of 2)

References

Recommended reading