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Many adults try CAM for chronic pain relief.(CLINICAL ROUNDS)
About 38% of adults and nearly 12% of children in the United States used some type of complementary or alternative medicine therapy in 2007, according to survey data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health.
Adults primarily reported using complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies to help manage chronic pain such as back, neck, or joint pain, as well as arthritis. Among children, the most common reason for using CAM therapies was back or neck pain. However, children had a greater variety of conditions being treated with CAM than did adults, including head and chest colds, anxiety and stress, insomnia, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and musculoskeletal complaints.
"While both children and adults are using CAM at high rates, the types of therapies they use and the conditions for which they are using these therapies vary between children and adults," Richard Nahin, Ph.D., an official with the NIH's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, said at a press briefing. The survey data come from the 2007 National Health Interview Survey and include information on the use of CAM from more than 23,000 adults and 9,400 children. Officials at CDC, which administers the survey, first collected data on CAM use in adults in 2002. This is the first time that information was ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Many adults try CAM for chronic pain relief.(CLINICAL ROUNDS)