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Assessing the value of complementary therapies

There is still a great deal of scepticism amongst many doctors and health professionals about CAM in relation to MS. This is because many CAM therapies have not been fully evaluated using controlled clinical trials – the main way through which conventional medicine is assessed (see Chapter 18). In this situation positive information about CAM […]

Complementary therapies and Multiple Sclerosis

When there is no current scientifically accepted cure for a disease, people understandably want to try other means of management. Many people over the last 30 or 40 years have claimed that they have the answer to MS, but the difficult problem for all such potential therapies is to find out whether there really is […]