Which intervention is an example of a complementary and alternative medicine therapy?
a. Acupuncture
b. Bright-light therapy
c. Electroconvulsive therapy
d. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation
A
Acupuncture is considered a complementary and alternative therapy. The other therapies are accepted by Western medicine.
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1. "What did you expect? You have only had contractions for a few hours. Labor takes time." 2. "When your perineal body thins out, your cervix will begin to dilate much faster than it is now." 3. "The hormones that cause labor to begin are just getting to be at levels that will change your cervix." 4. "Your cervix has also effaced, or thinned out, and that change in the cervix is also labor progress."