 Complementary Therapies
"Complementary Therapies" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Therapeutic practices which are not currently considered an integral part of conventional allopathic medical practice. They may lack biomedical explanations but as they become better researched some (PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; DIET; ACUPUNCTURE) become widely accepted whereas others (humors, radium therapy) quietly fade away, yet are important historical footnotes. Therapies are termed as Complementary when used in addition to conventional treatments and as Alternative when used instead of conventional treatment.
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D000529
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E02.190
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Complementary Therapies".
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Complementary Therapies" by people in this website by year, and whether "Complementary Therapies" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1999 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2002 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2003 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2006 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2007 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2008 | 3 | 3 | 6 | | 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2010 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2011 | 3 | 2 | 5 | | 2013 | 4 | 2 | 6 | | 2014 | 7 | 1 | 8 | | 2015 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2016 | 6 | 0 | 6 | | 2017 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2019 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2021 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2022 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2024 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Complementary Therapies" by people in Profiles.
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Raybin JL, Montgomery K, Janosy N, Mist S, Franklin H, Dieckmann NF, Hendricks-Ferguson VL, Jankowski CM. Study of Complementary and Integrative Interventions in Pediatric Patients With Serious Illness. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2025 May; 69(5):515-526.
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Kajencki M, Turcotte L, Claar M, Weinfurter EV, Whipple MO. The Use of Complementary and Integrative Medicine in Combination With Pharmacological Antiemetics to Address Chemotherapy-Induced Nausea and Vomiting in Pediatric Oncology: A Scoping Review. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol Nurs. 2024 Sep-Oct; 41(5):358-369.
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Walsh CJ, Friedman JC, Piper C, Conageski C. A Scoping Review of Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Human Papillomavirus Infections and Cervical Dysplasia. J Low Genit Tract Dis. 2024 Jul 01; 28(3):240-253.
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Hutten RJ, Weil CR, King AJ, Barney B, Bylund CL, Fagerlin A, Gaffney DK, Gill D, Scherer L, Suneja G, Tward JD, Warner EL, Werner TL, Whipple G, Evans J, Johnson SB. Multi-Institutional Analysis of Cancer Patient Exposure, Perceptions, and Trust in Information Sources Regarding Complementary and Alternative Medicine. JCO Oncol Pract. 2023 11; 19(11):1000-1008.
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Christmas M, Janssen I, Joffe H, Upchurch D, Santoro N, Kravitz HM. Menopause hormone therapy and complementary alternative medicine, quality of life, and racial/ethnic differences: the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN). Menopause. 2022 12 01; 29(12):1357-1364.
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Nolt D, O'Leary ST, Aucott SW. Risks of Infectious Diseases in Newborns Exposed to Alternative Perinatal Practices. Pediatrics. 2022 02 01; 149(2).
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Zemantic PK, Kurtz-Nelson EC, Barton H, Safer-Lichtenstein J, McIntyre LL. Family Empowerment: Predicting Service Utilization for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. J Autism Dev Disord. 2022 Nov; 52(11):4986-4993.
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Quinlan TAG, Roberts AW, Frank JW, Whittington MD. Health costs of women with chronic overlapping pain conditions by opioid and complementary and integrative health use. Health Serv Res. 2021 12; 56(6):1233-1244.
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Pedowitz EJ, Abrams RMC, Simpson DM. Management of Neuropathic Pain in the Geriatric Population. Clin Geriatr Med. 2021 05; 37(2):361-376.
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Deuel LM, Seeberger LC. Complementary Therapies in Parkinson Disease: a Review of Acupuncture, Tai Chi, Qi Gong, Yoga, and Cannabis. Neurotherapeutics. 2020 10; 17(4):1434-1455.
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