Integrating Complementary Therapies in Primary Care: A Practical Guide for Health Professionals

This book is a practical and readable guide to the integration of complementary therapies into mainstream primary care. Based on the successful experiences of the authors' clinical setting, it offers clinicians, therapists, and other healthcare professionals a realistic routemap of the key issues, as well as practical ways in which to ensure close working, appropriate referrals, advice and treatment decisions. Patient information sheets and clinical guidance sheets for key conditions are included in full.The text covers:

Practical steps to how complementary therapies may be integrated into mainstream care

models and issues of research in complementary therapies

how to design an integrated service, with clear examples

funding, resource and legal issues

issues related to economic evaluation

adaptation of the service through a reflective approach

clinical treatment option sheets

patient self-help and diet information sheets

Of interest and practical help to a wide range of healthcare professionals, this book will be especially valuable to those currently working in primary care, family practice, and any complementary therapy field.

Offers a detailed example of how a successfully integrated service - complementary therapies and primary care - can be developed

Covers key issues for practice development and clinical governance

Looks precisely at how to deliver and evaluate a service, including economic evaluation

Includes examples of all the actual service documentation and information sheets needed to run the service

Includes patient information sheets on conditions and therapies

Includes flowcharts of clinical decision-making and treatment options for the healthcare professional

Authoritative - written by members of a successful and integrated working team.

Leon Chaitow ND DO is an internationally known and respected osteopathic and naturopathic practitioner and teacher of soft tissue manipulation methods of treatment. He is author of over 60 books, including a series on Advanced Soft Tissue Manipulation (Muscle Energy Techniques, Positional Release Techniques, Modern Neuromuscular Techniques) and also Palpation Skills; Cranial

Manipulation: Theory and Practice; Fibromyalgia Syndrome: A Practitioner’s Guide to Treatment, and many more. He is editor of the peer reviewed Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies, that offers a multidisciplinary perspective on physical methods of patient care. Leon Chaitow was for many years senior lecturer on the Therapeutic Bodywork degree courses which he helped to design at the School of Integrated Health, University of Westminster, London, where is he now an Honorary Fellow. He continues to teach and practice part-time in London, when not in Corfu, Greece where he focuses on his writing.