Integrative oncology: Managing cancer pain with complementary and alternative therapies

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 325-331

  Running, Alice ^a   Seright, Teresa ^a  

^a Montana State University College of Nursing   (United States)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Alternative therapies; Bio Energy; Cancer; Complementary therapies; Evidence; Massage; Music therapy; Pain

Indexed keywords

NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ACUPRESSURE; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; AROMATHERAPY; ART THERAPY; ARTICLE; BIOENERGY; BONE PAIN; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CANCER PAIN; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONSTIPATION; DELIRIUM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG EFFICACY; GUIDED IMAGERY; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MASSAGE; MUSIC THERAPY; MYOCLONUS; NAUSEA; PATIENT SAFETY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELAXATION TRAINING; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; SEDATION; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SIDE EFFECT; SPIRITUAL HEALING; STRATEGIC PLANNING; TAI CHI; THERAPY EFFECT; URINE RETENTION; YOGA;

ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; ANXIETY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HOLISTIC HEALTH; HUMANS; MALE; MASSAGE; MEDITATION; MUSIC THERAPY; NEOPLASMS; PAIN; PAIN MANAGEMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84865622291     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: 15343081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-012-0275-x     Document Type: Article

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