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Table 3 CAM treatments received from physicians last 12 months

From: Use of complementary and alternative medicine in Norway: a cross-sectional survey with a modified Norwegian version of the international questionnaire to measure use of complementary and alternative medicine (I-CAM-QN)

  

Motivation %

 
 

Used by % within the last 12 months

Acute illness

Long-term illness

Improvement of wellbeing

Other

Helpfulness % (Very or somewhat)

Manipulationa

0.2

0.0

66.9

0.0

33.1

100

Homeopathy

0.2

0.0

64.1

0.0

35.9

100

Acupuncture

0.6

14.2

43.3

18.0

24.5

84.1

Herbal medicine

0.04

0.0

0.0

100

0

–

Healing

0.1

0.0

69.2

0.0

30.8

69.2

Traditional healing

0.04

0.0

0.0

100

0.0

100

Reflexology

0.04

0.0

100

0.0

0.0

100

Kinesiology

0

–

–

–

–

–

Massagea

0.6

38.1

22.5

13.3

26.1

92.2

Naparapathy

0.2

0.0

100

0.0

0.0

76.4

Osteopathy

0.1

0.0

100

0.0

0.0

100

Cupping

0.1

0.0

0.0

0.0

100

100

Other

0.1

8.9

61.5

8.8

20.9

100

  1. a Not consider as CAM when performed by physicians