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The purpose of this chapter is to provide information about some health care therapies that are typically not considered mainstream. Different forms of complementary medicine are described, so clinical practitioners will be familiar with what they involve.

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Blakley, J.E. (2023). Complementary and Alternative Therapies. In: Blakley, B.W., Blakley, J.E. (eds) Functional Illness of the Head and Neck. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12998-8_22

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