[Place of reflexotherapy and some other methods of alternative medicine in modern medical practice].
Assessment of the role and place of nontraditional methods of treatment and reflexotherapy, widely applied in hospitals is presented in the article. Besides, we become alerted regarding not serious approach of some scientists and health service managers to reflexotherapy as a whole and to one of its methods--acupuncture. An analysis of the situation developed in the legislation concerning training of reflexotherapy specialists for last 15-20 years not only in Ukraine, but also abroad was done. The article presents a historical parallel between the use of medicamentous and nonmedicamentous methods of treatment.
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D000529:Complementary Therapies / Q000145:classification / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000592:standards; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D012028:Reflexotherapy / Q000145:classification / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012426:Russia; D009626:Terminology as Topic