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Reasons for Using Complimentary and Alternative Medicine

The high cost of health insurance and prescriptions coupled with a national awareness of the necessity of living healthy life styles, is creating record growth in the Complimentary Alternative Medicine market.  End users are compelled to seek alternative sources for viable, lower cost and often less invasive therapies to reduce the use of prescription drugs and expensive medical practitioners. 

 One of the most significant scientific changes affecting the attitudes of medical professionals has been the formation of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), a component of the National Institutes of Health, which is dedicated to exploring complementary and alternative medicine healing practices in the context of rigorous science, training Complimentary And Alternative Medicine Researchers, and disseminating authoritative information to the public and professionals.

A 2004 report from the Centers for Disease Control states that the numbers of adults that have used some form of complimentary alternative medicine therapy increased from 42% in 1997 to 75% in 2002. Between 1990 and 1997 there was a 50% increase in expenditures for complimentary alternative medicine
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) survey asked people to select from five reasons to describe why they used Complimentary and Alternative Medicine. Results were as follows (people could select more than one reason):
Complimentary and Alternative Medicine would improve health when used in combination with conventional medical treatments: 55%
Complimentary and Alternative Medicine would be interesting to try: 50%
Conventional medical treatments would not help: 28%
A conventional medical professional suggested trying Complimentary and Alternative Medicine: 26%
Conventional medical treatments are too expensive: 13%
The survey found that most people use Complimentary and Alternative Medicine along with conventional medicine rather than in place of conventional medicine.

Additionally the survey found that of the 10 complimentary alternative medicine therapies most commonly used in the previous 12 months, most were mind-body interventions. (Self Healing Made Easy will give you the tools to do your own mind-body interventions.)

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