The Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine by Multiple Sclerosis Patients in Turkey
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In recent years, therapies of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) have begun to be used in many chronic diseases and also in multiple sclerosis (1,2). The concepts of complementary medicine and alternative medicine can easily be confused. Alternative medicine is defined as “all types of medical services used instead of medical treatment but not accepted by a modern medical approach.” Complementary medicine, on the other hand, is defined as a system of treatment and care used in addition to conventional medical treatment (3). The frequency of CAM used by multiple sclerosis (MS) patients is a result of the nature of the disease. Since there is no established treatment for MS and the existing treatments have some side effects, MS patients tend to employ CAM (4).
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