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Interesting Facts about Complementary Medicine
Did you know...
- 42% of Americans use non-traditional medical therapies.
- 56% of Americans surveyed believe their health plans should cover alternative and complementary therapies.
Massage Therapy
- Consumers visit massage therapists 114 million times each year.
- Among complementary and alternative medicine practices surveyed, medical practitioners ranked massage therapy highest (74%) in terms of being perceived as always or usually effective.
- Muscle-specific massage therapy is effective in reducing the incidence of chronic headaches.
- When naming the types of alternative care consumers say they would be most likely to use, 80% say massage therapy.
- In a July 2000 consumer survey commissioned by AMTA, twice as many adult Americans reported receiving one or more massages from a massage therapist in the past year (16%) as did in 1997 (8%).
- Twenty-one percent of Americans said they expected to get a massage from a massage therapist in the next 12 months.
Acupuncture
- Currently there are more than three million acupuncturists worldwide.
- Acupuncture has been known and used in the West since the seventeenth century.
- Acupuncture pressure points are not necessarily at the site of pain, but often over distant areas. For instance, neck pain can present to the doctor as shoulder or arm pain.
- Thirty-four states have licensing requirements for acupuncturists.
Diet and Nutrition
- Low-calorie diets stimulate the body to accumulate fat.
- According to national cancer organizations, as much as 80% of cancers are related to diet and lifestyle.
- Physical activity speeds up your metabolism for up to 12 hours even after you stop.
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