Embracing Alternative Care

This is from the U.S. News and World Report website (http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/2008/01/09/embracing-alternative-care.html)

There is hope! We’re gradually making our point about conventional medicine’s incomplete picture. 

 

Embracing Alternative Care

Top hospitals put unorthodox therapies into practice

By Avery ComarowPosted January 9, 2008″To be blunt, if my wife and I didn’t think it was helping him, we wouldn’t have continued with it,” says Dan Polley. He’s talking about Mikey, the Polleys’ 2½-year-old in the next room, who was diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia when he was 6 months old. Chemotherapy, radiation, and a bone marrow transplant have been crucial elements of Mikey’s treatment. But the “it” his father speaks of is nothing like these aggressive, costly, and heavily researched exemplars of western care-it is a kind of touch therapy, from the camp of alternative medicine. Gentle and benign, “healing touch” is intended to rebalance the energy field that its practitioners believe surrounds the body and flows through it along defined pathways, affecting health when disrupted. Several times a week, therapist Lynne Morrison spends 20 minutes unblocking and smoothing Mikey’s energy field, which energy healers like Morrison say they can feel and correct.

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