Please enable JavaScript.

Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.

Are there alternative treatments to helping cope with cancer? Other than…

- - - - https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm
      - Why use support groups?
        
        https://www.cancer.net/coping-with-cancer/finding-support-and-information/support-groups
        
        "Receiving a cancer diagnosis often triggers a strong emotional response. Some people experience shock, anger, and disbelief. Others may feel intense sadness, fear, and a sense of loss."
        
        "Support groups allow people to talk about their experiences with others living with cancer. This can help reduce stress."
- - - - express your emotions
        
        cope with symptoms of a disease and its treatment
        
        relax and feel comfortable
        
        improve your emotional and physical well being
        
        develop self confidence and self esteem
        
        develop or rekindle a sense of creativity
        
        Explore fear, anxiety, Anger and the rage of emotional responses
    - - Listen to music
      - Sing
      - Move to Music
      - Make music with simple instruments
      - Write song lyrics about your feelings
      - Use guided imagery
  - - - "The use of music as a therapeutic tool in health and medicine dates back to ancient times. In modern Western medicine, music therapy started being formally used in the 1950s and is now often incorporated into conventional medical care. Music therapy is a key therapeutic tool used within most integrative medicine programs at large cancer centers around the nation".
- - - - "Aromatherapy is the therapeutic use of essential oils (also known as volatile oils) from plants (flowers, herbs, or trees) for the improvement of physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being."
      - "Essential oils are volatile liquid substances extracted from aromatic plant material by steam distillation or mechanical expression; oils produced with the aid of chemical solvents are not considered true essential oils."
    - - "The effects of aromatherapy are theorized to result from the binding of chemical components in the essential oil to receptors in the olfactory bulb, impacting the brain’s emotional center, the limbic system. Topical application of aromatic oils may exert antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, and analgesic effects."
      - "Aromatherapy products are not subject to approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration unless there is a claim for treatment of specific diseases."
- - - - "Acupuncture is effective for control of pain, of local swelling post-operatively, for shortening the resolution of hematoma and tissue swelling and for minimizing use of medications and their attendant side effects."
      - "Energetic acupuncture, an approach consisting of the use of needles with electricity and moxibustion (a form of local heating with herbs imparts a sense of well being and accelerates patients' recovery. In conjunction with nutritional support, its use is routinely employed in some cancer institutions."
      - "That acupuncture is a powerful tool for general pain control is widely known. . Less known is its success use in some cancer-related pain and in reducing narcotic use and thereby minimizing the side effects confusion, disturbed mentation, behavioral changes, nausea and severe constipation."
      - "Energetic acupuncture repletes energy level to the organism as a whole, reestablishes homeostasis by re-balancing energy distribution and un-blocking energy flow. "
  - - - "Acupuncture first started in traditional East Asian medicine. It became an important part of Chinese medicine about 2000 years ago. But we now know how it works in scientific terms as well"
      - "Ancient Chinese medicine suggests that energy called Qi flows through the body. It moves along channels called meridians. Acupuncture alters this flow to restore or optimise good health."
    - - "Acupuncture is generally safe and gives very few side effects. That is if it is done by a professional and qualified practitioner. The most common side effect is minor bleeding and bruising. This happens in up to 3 in 100 people" (3%)
- - - - "An ancient Chinese martial art, tai chi was first used as a form of self-defense, but research has shown that this practice of meditation can actually be an effective form of medication for cancer patients."
    - - 'Tai chi is a "moving meditation" in which participants perform a series of slow, graceful motions that often resemble movements in nature. Individuals concentrate on deep breathing and precise posture, which helps to relax the mind and strengthen the body.'
    - - "Recent studies have indicated that tai chi enhances the immune system and relieves pain, anxiety and stress in cancer patients and survivors. Lorenzo Cohen, Ph.D., says he often recommends tai chi to patients because of its overall health benefits."
    - - "Decreased blood pressure, pain, and stiffness"
- - - - "Clinical hypnosis has been defined as a mind-body therapy that involves a deeply relaxed state, individualized mental imagery, and therapeutic suggestion"
      - "Clinical hypnosis is a mind-body therapy, one of the fastest-growing and most commonly employed categories of complementary and alternative medicines (CAM), as defined by the NCCAM (National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine) of the National Institutes of Health."
      - "Hypnosis produces an altered state of consciousness, awareness, or perception. The hypnotic state is a highly relaxed state in which the patient’s mind (conscious and subconscious) is focused and receptive to therapeutic suggestion"
      - "Hypnosis produces an altered state of consciousness, awareness, or perception. The hypnotic state is a highly relaxed state in which the patient’s mind (conscious and subconscious) is focused and receptive to therapeutic suggestion"
    - - "Clinical hypnosis has a very long history, with reports of medical application dating back to the 18th century"
      - "The word hypnosis, derived from the Greek word for sleep, was coined by" James Braid in 1841
    - - "A national health interview survey of medical usage in 2007 found that 4 out of 10 US respondents reported having used complementary and alternative medical treatments in the previous year."
    - - Six Components
        
        An introduction
        
        A hypnotic introduction
        
        Imagery
        
        A Deepening procedure
        
        Symptom specific suggestions
        
        A conclusion
- - - - "It was an ancient practice to use music in healing ceremonies as these primitive people viewed illness as originating from magic-religious forces. They believed that music combined with dances or words, as well as songs and music producing instruments were effective in exorcising disease or healing wound"s
- - - - " Most of the breast cancer survivors in this study had used some form of CT since the time of their most recent cancer diagnosis and believed that such therapies could be of significant benefit, despite a lack of correlation between CT use and current life satisfaction. Many believed that use of CT may prevent cancer recurrence. It is important, therefore, to investigate the efficacy of various CTs among longer-termcancer survivors, especially with regard to their potential in preventing cancer recurrence".