Table 5 Indications for offering CAM.
From: Use of complementary and alternative medicine at Norwegian and Danish hospitals
Indication | ||
|---|---|---|
Norway | Denmark | |
Acupuncture | Pain: Back pain, pain in neck/shoulder/muscles/joints/stomach/pelvic region, headache, migraine, sciatic pain | Pain: pelvic pain, muscular pain or chronic pain like sciatic pain, |
For pregnancy/giving birth: retended placenta, inadequate milk production, tension, induction of birth, ovum harvesting, nausea, vomiting, infertility, pain | For pregnancy/giving birth: nausea, ovum harvesting, infertility, pain | |
Other: insomnia, arthritis, post-operative and chemotherapy-induced nausea, anxiety, diabetes and relaxation | Other: oedema, anxiety, stepping down doses of medicine, chemotherapy-induced nausea | |
Other CAM therapies | Pelvic tension, colic, anxiety, ADHD, behaviour problems, nausea, substance abuse and allergy | Not answered |