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Creative Therapies and Mind-Body Health Systems

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This chapter covers noninvasive complementary modalities that are generally not part of conventional treatment plans. Creative therapies, including music and art, will be explored. Theories and evidence of attention and distraction as modulators of pain will be presented. Mind-body therapies, such as massage, yoga, and t’ai chi, will also be covered. Relevant scientific data and evidence will be presented with the understanding that many of these ethereal and personalized therapies do not always rest their laurels on the scientific method. Novel and emerging methods to harmonize the current rigorous, reductionist standards of scientific literature and the intuitive, holistic approaches of complementary therapies will be discussed. Concepts of pluralism and whole-systems research will be explored.

The therapies were selected for their prevalence in major cancer centers in the United States and abroad, as well as their relevance to presenting the overarching issues facing complementary therapies regarding research, legitimacy, patient safety, and funding.

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Abbreviations

AATA:

American Art Therapy Association

ACMT:

Advanced certified

AMA:

American Medical Association

AMTA:

American Music Therapy Association

ATCB:

Art Therapy Credentials Board

ATCS:

Art Therapist Certified Supervisor

ATR:

Art therapist registered

ATR-BC:

ATR-Board Certified

CAM:

Complementary and alternative medicine

CMT:

Certified massage therapist

CMT:

Certified music therapist

FDA:

Food and Drug Administration

fMRI:

Functional magnetic resonance imaging

IAYT:

International Association of Yoga Therapists

JAMA:

Journal of the American Medical Association

LMT/P:

Licensed massage therapist/practitioner

MBAT:

Mindfulness-based art therapy

MEG:

Magnetoencephalography

MT-BC:

Music Therapist Board Certified

NCBMTB:

National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage

NCCAM:

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine

NMTR:

National Music Therapist Registry

PET:

Positron emission tomography

RMT:

Registered music therapist

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Sankar, V. (2019). Creative Therapies and Mind-Body Health Systems. In: Gulati, A., Puttanniah, V., Bruel, B., Rosenberg, W., Hung, J. (eds) Essentials of Interventional Cancer Pain Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99684-4_53

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