Integrating complementary therapies: the need for funded research that is relevant to practice

Complementary therapies in general practice.

Integrating Complementary & Alternative Therapies with Conventional Care

This publication is one in a series of educational resource materials on complementary and alternative health care issues published by the and is thus in the public domain; it may be quoted freely with proper credit. Please cite as follows: Integrating Complementary & Alternative Therapies with Conventional Care is one of a series of publications entitled The Convergence of Complementary, Alter...

Research on placebo analgesia is relevant to clinical practice

Over the decades, research into placebo responses has shed light onto several endogenous (i.e. produced from within) mechanisms underlying modulation of pain perception initiated after the administration of inert substances (i.e. placebos). Chiropractors and manual therapists should embrace analgesic-placebo-research in an attempt to maximize clinical benefit. Historical views that placebo resp...

Integrating research into practice.

For more than twenty years, the leaders of our profession, with the support of the Medical Library Association (MLA), have urged us to integrate research evidence into our practices. The title of the first MLA research policy, Using Scientific Evidence to Inform Information Practice, from 1995 conveys the idea that health sciences librarians should apply research results when making decisions [...

The need for clinically relevant research on treatment-resistant depression.

Posternak and Zimmerman reported on a series of 74 outpatients with depressive disorders who were treated in their group practice at the Rhode Island Hospital between 1996 and 1999. All of the patients had either failed to respond to or relapsed after responding to an adequate trial of antidepressant medication. The treating psychiatrists either switched the patients to another antidepressant (...