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Manipulative therapyManipulative therapy involves use of body workor massage therapyand other physical manipulation of the body for healing, such as osteopathy, and chiropractic. A survey released in May 2004by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicinefocused on who used complementary and alternative medicine(CAM), what was used, and why it was used in the United States by adults age 18 years and over during 2002. According to this recent survey, manipulative therapy was the 3rd most commonly used NCCAMclassification of CAM categories (10.9%) in the United States during 2002 ([1]table 4 on page 10) when all use of prayerwas excluded. Consistent with previous studies, this study found that the majority of individuals (i.e., 54.9%) used CAM in conjunction with conventional medicine(page 6). There are many different styles of manipulative therapy. It is a fundamental feature of ayurvedicmedicine, traditional Chinese medicineand some forms of New Agealternative medicineas well as being used by mainstream medical practitioners. In one form or another it is probably as old as human culture itself and is a feature to some degree of therapeutic interactions in traditional cultures around the world. It may rely partially upon the placebo effectand can be effective in providing both short and long term relief. Different forms of manipulative therapy are available to choose from:
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