Some complementary therapies fall into more than one category, like meditation, which is a mind-body therapy and part of a whole medical system known as traditional Chinese medicine.

In America, women were more likely than men to use CAM, with the biggest difference in use of mind-body therapies including prayer specifically for health reasons".

Patients often express interest in mind-body complementary therapies because they offer a non-drug approach to treating some health conditions.

Seeking relief, he began studying biofeedback and other mind-body therapies, and ended up convinced that neither medicine nor modern physics substantiated the familiar view of a strictly material universe.

Proponents say complementary techniques, particularly mind-body therapies, offer many benefits: they are not invasive and have no side-effects.

The scientists examined nine studies of mind-body therapies, treatments that focus on the ways in which emotional, mental, social, spiritual and behavioral factors can affect health.

This site, maintained by a medical librarian at the University of Pittsburgh, contains an exhaustive listing of Web resources for alternative mind-body therapies, including art therapy, music therapy, and aromatherapy.

BIORC provides research participants (who may be at any stage in their cancer treatment and recovery) with naturopathic care, acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine treatments, mind-body therapies, and nutritional guidance.

In the past decade, strong evidence has been accumulated regarding the benefits of mind-body therapies, acupuncture, and some nutritional supplements for treating pain.

This approach distinguishes it from mind-body therapy as well as from somatic therapy.