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Anna has been involved in complementary and alternative medicines for years. Her move to holistic health practices initially took place after an injury acquired in a car crash proved difficult to treat through conventional means:
I had a car accident, and I had a back injury. And I went down the conventional route where I had… a consultant looked at me and said, “well, you know, it’s just a whiplash injury and we’ll just give you some physiotherapy and that should sort it out”. And it didn’t. And then I sort of tried a few different things.
(Anna — a client and a practitioner)
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Sointu, E. (2012). Introduction. In: Theorizing Complementary and Alternative Medicines. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137003737_1
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