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摘要
Despite of an undoubtable progress in the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS) that has been made for the lost years, MS still remains to be a chronic incurable disease with a high impact on the patient's daily life. Therefore, it seems reasonable that there is a widespread use of alternative methods among patients with MS. This has been disregarded in research until lately. The aim of avoiding side effects caused by the conventional medication, but also a higher emotional support provided by the alternative therapist, and the option of active self engagement seem to be crucial motivations for the utilization of alternative medicine (AM). A wide range of different alternative therapies is available for MS including mainly low risk methods such as dietary modification, nutritional supplementation predominantly with essential fatty acids and vitamins, herbal medicine, homeopathy and mind-body therapies. However, some of the offered alternative approaches may cause severe and even fatal side effects. For the greatest part of the alternative therapies no data arising from controlled trials concerning the efficacy in MS currently exist. For a few methods controlled trials mostly hove failed to show a significant effect.
- 出版日期2008
