Healing Modalities

Conventional Healing Modalities
Healing modalities that are widely accepted and practiced by the mainstream medical community, including holders of MD (medical doctor) or DO (doctor of osteopathy) degrees, some of whom also may practice complementary, alternative, and/or traditional modalities. Other terms for conventional medicine or allopathic, Western, modern, and mainstream medicine; and biomedicine.
 
Complementary Healing Modalities
Healing modalities that are generally used in addition to conventional medicine.
 
Alternative Healing Modalities
Healing modalities used instead of conventional medicine.
 
Traditional Healing Modalities
Healing modalities generally referred to as historical and indigenous systems of medicine that have been used for centuries such as Native American of Ancient Chinese healing modalities.
 
More people are using complementary, alternative and tradition therapies to cope with stress.