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Complementary vs. Alternative Medicine

Oriental Medicine / Traditional Chinese Medicine as Complementary Medicine
The objectives of the healing arts are the improvement of patients' health, well-being, and quality of life. Everyone in the medical community is striving for a common goal. Therefore, all practitioners, regardless of their modality, should work together to produce synergy for the patients in particular and for medicine in general. Patients and medical practitioners will benefit from the combination of the various healing arts, sciences, and healthy lifestyles.

The goal at Modern World Acupuncture Clinic is to develop and participate in an integrated, cooperative healing community. Contrary to the perspective that other medical therapies are alternative and therefore separate, this clinic views all of the various effective healing modalities as complementary.

The various components contributing to improved health and quality of life include:

• Modern, standard medicine and dentistry, with pharmaceuticals and surgery
• Oriental Medicine with acupuncture, energy work and herbal solutions
• Chiropractic and applied kinesiology
• Body therapies such as massage, physical therapy, cranial-sacral, Rolfing
• Meditation, prayer, and other spiritual or psycho-emotional therapies
• Exercise, yoga, Tai-chi, Qi Gong, and other movement based meditations
• Nutrition, food quality, supplementation
• Air and water quality
• Other lifestyle concerns (smoking, drinking, drugs, stress, and so on)