Complementary and Integrative Medicine: Emerging Therapies for Diabetes, Part 2: Preface
- Belinda S. O’Connell, MS, RD, LD
This is the second part of a two-part Diabetes Spectrum From Research to Practice section focusing on the use of complementary and integrative therapies for diabetes management. Part 1
included articles on vitamin and mineral supplements in diabetes management, the use of subtle energy therapies (magnetic and touch), and Traditional Chinese medicine as an example of an alternative system of healing.
In Part 2, we continue our exploration of integrative therapies and diabetes with an article by Laura Shane-McWhorter, PharmD, BCPS, FASCP, CDE, BC-ADM, on the use of botanical supplements in diabetes management (p. 199), a review of mind-body therapies by Birgitta I. Rice, MS, RPh, CHES (p. 213), and a discussion of body-based or manipulative therapies by Jeanette Ezzo, MsT, MPH, PhD, and associates (p. 218). We also include an interview with James Gordon, MD, director of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and chair of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy (p. 210). We are deeply appreciative of the time these individuals have given to further the education of diabetes clinicians in the area of integrative therapies. We, the guest editors, are also deeply grateful to the editorial team and staff of Diabetes Spectrum for allowing us adequate space and time to cover this important emerging area of medicine.
It is important for those of us who have been trained in conventional Western medicine and health care to become more familiar …
