Complementary/ Alternative Medicine & ‘Wellness’ Guidelines

  Table of Contents

Preface

Complementary Alternative Medicine

• Introduction

• Licensure and credentialing of CAM practitioners

• Demand for alternative medicine therapy

• Health plan coverage, general

• Acupuncture 

• Applied Kinesiology

• Aromatherapy 

• Ayurvedic medicine

• Biofeedback 

• Magnet and Bioelectromagnetic therapy 

• Chiropractic services

• Diet and nutrition

• Guided imagery

• Herbal medicine/Nutritional supplements 

• Treatment of menopausal symptoms with herbal products

• Common Herbal and Other CAM Products with Putative Therapeutic Claims - Table

• Weight loss CAM

• Green tea for weight loss

• Operation Cure All, Coverage issues for herbal products

• Homeopathy 

• Hypnosis

• Manual/massage therapies

• Mindfulness Meditation 

• Naturopathy

• Relaxation therapy

• Transcendental meditation

• Yoga

• CAM Cancer Therapies 

• Resources for CAM

• References/suggested reading, general and by topic - CAM

• Organizations related to CAM

• Web sites related to Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Preventive Health Care (‘Wellness’) Guidelines by Age and  Sex

• Introduction

• Preventive Health Risk Assessment, Wellness and Preventive Care Policy

• Domestic Violence Screening

• Medical record reminders

• Immunizations, general notes

• Pediatric preventive health care

• Sexual and drug histories

• Comprehensive Eye Exams

• Patient version, Pediatric preventive health care guidelines

• Prenatal preventive health care

• Patient version, Prenatal preventive health guidelines

• Adult preventive health care

• Preventive Physical Activity Regimens

• Preventive Health Care Coverage by Medical and Health Plans

• Patient versions of the adult guidelines, male

• Patient versions of the adult guidelines, female

• Preventive health care interventions

• Presurgical screening tests

• Healthy adult preventive care matrix, flow sheet

• Vitamins

• 2005 Diet recommendations

• References and resources 

• Organizations - providing helpful preventive health care information

• Web sites related to Preventive Health Care

CAD and Stroke Prevention

• Introduction

• Risk factors, major and minor

• The Metabolic Syndrome

• Homocysteine

• Protective factors and risk reduction strategies

  • Stroke Prevention - The relationship between TIAs and subsequent stroke

  • Antioxidant vitamins

  • Lifestyle factors

  • Diet/Nutrition

  • Drug Management to prevent atherosclerosis

  • Physical Activity

  • Weight reduction

  • Depression

• Risk reduction strategies summary - table

• Management of hypercholesterolemia - table

• Nutritional management of hypercholesterolemia - table

• Hypolipemic drug therapy - table

• Laboratory monitoring of therapy

• Improving guideline compliance by providers of care

• Notes

References and Resources – CAD & Stroke Prevention

• References

• Acronyms

• Patient version of the guideline

• Soy protein content of soy foods

• Nutritional components of fish, shell fish

• Web Sites

• Notes

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