CAM Perceived as Beneficial for Back Pain

Jul 7, 2010

The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine has published an article that records that 60% of patients that use CAM for back pain perceived they received ‘great benefit’ from it. The article concludes that ‘specific factors and therapies associatedwith perceived benefit warrant further investigation’.
For the abstract and a copy of the full article go to:
http://www.jabfm.org/cgi/content/short/23/3/354

EFCAM is a Federation of European Federations of specific CAM modalities and national CAM umbrella organisations. Its principal objective is to achieve equality of access to CAM throughout Europe.

Mission Statement

We want to make sure that you, the citizen, can have access to a regulated and protected trade, so that you are only offered the highest standard of services. We want to make sure that you, the practitioner, have your right to work recognised, protected and enshrined. We want to make sure that each European government is well informed and can take a structured approach to the regulation of CAM, so that CAM can be better implemented as a supportive body to the existing medical field.

This work is in everyone’s interest.