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A new study has shown that more than half (53.1%) of office-based physicians in the U.S., across specialty areas, recommended at least one complementary health approach (CHA) to their patients during the previous 12 months, with female physicians (63.2%) more likely to recommend a CHA than male physicians (49.3%). Overall, massage therapy was the most commonly recommended CHA, followed by chiropractic manipulation, herbs/nonvitamin supplements, yoga, and acupuncture. This unique study, which found physician's sex, race, specialty, and U.S. region to be significant predictors of CHA recommendation. The data are based on the 2012 Physician Induction Interview of the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS PII). The researchers analyzed recommendations by physicians to their patients for any CHA and for individual approaches, including massage therapy, herbs/nonvitamin supplements, chiropractic/osteopathic manipulation, yoga, acupuncture, and mind-body therapies. The analysis also looked at physician specialty area, including general/family practice physicians, psychiatrists, OB/GYNs, and pediatricians, and their likelihood of recommending any or a specific CHA. Source: https://www.news-medical.net/news/20191203/Study-Complementary-health-approach-is-recommended-by-over-half-of-US-office-based-physicians.aspx