Alternative Medicine and Rehabilitation: A Guide for Practitioners Book

	Preface
	Contributors
1	The Physiologic Basis of Manipulation	1
2	The Efficacy of Manipulative Treatment	31
3	Chiropractic Therapy in the Rehabilitation of Neuromusculoskeletal Diseases	59
4	Massage as a Form of Complementary and Alternative Healing Modality for Physical Manipulation	77
5	Tai Chi Chuan	99
6	Yoga in Medicine	139
7	The Alexander Technique	175
8	Prayer, Meditation, and Spirituality in Rehabilitation	185
9	Biofeedback as an Adjunct in Rehabilitation Medicine	197
10	Clinical Hypnosis	213
11	Acupuncture: From Qi to Biomedical Science	245
12	Nutritional Therapy in Rehabilitation	263
13	Research Program of the NIH Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Stroke and Neurologic Disorders: 1995-2000	277
14	Reading the Complementary and Alternative Medicine Literature	293
15	Paying for Complementary and Alternative Medicine	311
16	Low Back Pain: An Integrative Treatment Approach	317
17	Alternative Therapies for Complications of Diabetes Mellitus	343
18	Qi Gong Exercise in the Treatment of Cumulative Trauma Disorder	351
19	Clinical Applications of Magnetic Therapy for Neuropathic Pain	373
	Index	379