PURPOSE To assess the use of complementary and alternative medicine in hospice care in the state of Washington. METHODS Hospices offering inpatient and outpatient care in Washington State were surveyed by phone interview. RESULTS Response rate was 100%. Results indicated that 86% of Washington State hospices offered complementary and alternative services to their patients, most frequently m...

Background: Reflexology is a type of massage that involves applying different amounts pressure to the feet, hands, and ears. It based on theory that, these body parts are connected certain organs body systems. Aim: The study was aimed evaluate effect reflexology post-operative pain severity after laparoscopic appendectomy for patients at surgical units. Methods: A quasi experimental resea...

Purpose: This study aimed to compare the effect of reflexology massage soles on feet and hands intensity pain in patients after cholecystectomy appendectomy women. Methods: was a clinical trial pre-test-post-test design with three groups women who underwent an Mashhad, Iran. Pain assessed 1, 4, 12, 24 hours intervention. The intervention performed within first hour 12 surgery for 10 min each ha...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease of the central nervous system without a known cure. Thus the role of complementary and alternative therapies (CATs) for the management of symptoms lies in palliative care and this is borne out by the popularity of these treatments amongst MS sufferers. This review is aimed at determining whether this use is supported by evidence of effectiveness from...

BACKGROUND Asthma and rhinosinusitis are common medical conditions among adults. Alternative treatments could have important impacts on health status among those individuals with these conditions, but specific prevalence data for these treatments are limited. OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence of specific alternative treatment modalities, including herbal agents, ingestion of caffeinated be...

INTRODUCTION Reflexology is the systematic practice of applying some pressure to particular points on the feet and hands to impact on health of related parts of the body. OBJECTIVE To explore the practitioners' perspectives of reflexology in Malaysia. METHODS Data was collected using face-to-face semi-structured interviews with practitioners in Malaysia. The interviews were conducted in the...

Purpose This survey aimed to generate preliminary data, in the face of inconsistent reflexology teaching literature, about two reflexology safety and quality control issues. First, whether reflexologists consider it safe to treat people with heart disease and if so, whether the presence of cardiac disease influences the therapist’s treatment decisions. Reflexology teaching literature is contrad...

Scientific validation of reflexology requires an in-depth and noninvasive evaluation of "reflexology/reflex areas" in health and disease. The present paper reports the differential properties of "normal" and "abnormal" reflexology areas related to the lumbar vertebrae in a subject suffering from low back pain. The pathology is supported by radiological evidence. The reflexology target regions w...

OBJECTIVE This experimental, repeated-measures, crossover design study with nursing home residents examined the efficacy of reflexology in individuals with mild-to-moderate stage dementia. Specifically, the study tested whether a weekly reflexology intervention contributed to the resident outcomes of reduced physiologic distress, reduced pain, and improved affect. SETTING The study was conduc...