Introduction Patients are increasingly making their own healthcare their own responsibility, and are becoming more selective in what treatment and therapies they use in their recovery from illness. Dissatisfaction with conventional treatment that is indifferent of a holistic view of health, may produce more or less severe side-effects, or even concomitant diseases, makes patients seekContinue reading “Science, evidence-based medicine and CAM…..it´s controversial!”
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The challenges of IBS – A critical analysis of research in CAM and a critical examination of methodological modifications suitable for future investigations on IBS and for research in CAM in general
Introduction Irritable bowel syndrome, IBS, is a diagnosis that is difficult to understand and difficult to treat [8]; [30]. Its definition is vague: IBS is a syndrome that incorporates symptoms of several functional gastro-intestinal disorders [8] that should have been experienced by patients´ for at least 3 months [3]. As a description, this is non-inclusiveContinue reading “The challenges of IBS – A critical analysis of research in CAM and a critical examination of methodological modifications suitable for future investigations on IBS and for research in CAM in general”
