Medical Meditation? Clinical Yoga? Alternative Therapies Go

The doctor is in. So is the yogi. A sharp shift in health care is taking place as more than one-third of American adults now supplement or substitute mainstream medical care with acupuncture, meditation, yoga and other therapies long considered alternative. In 2022, 37% of adult pain patients used nontraditional medical care, a marked rise from 19% in 2002, according to research published this week in JAMA. The change has been propelled by growing insurance reimbursement for clinical alternative

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