Complementary and integrated medicine

You are probably familiar with the term complementary medicine. When you consider a problem, you go to a specialist doctor for your foot pain, so you expect to get better with diagnostic measures, physical examination, and treatment measures, but if this improvement is not complete or does not happen at all, you have to change the specialist doctor and if you did this, you still did not get any results, you may have to change the treatment method. Here you may refer to someone who works in traditional medicine, in that case, when you receive medicine, if you take it and your condition Better, so to speak, it is said that you used a complementary method means that the main method is classical medicine and the other methods that you refer to for your recovery have the status of complementary medicine. Now consider that you went to the relevant specialist for the same problem of foot pain, diagnostic and therapeutic measures were taken, but there was no result. It introduces another method, for example, it tells you to try acupuncture, the acupuncture you try still does not get the desired result and you look for another method, this time you choose homeopathy and the result will be desirable . Consider that you tried classical medicine, traditional medicine, and acupuncture to achieve homeopathic treatment and it did not work, and now you try the next method and you get an acceptable result. All these methods are considered complementary methods. But recently, we have seen the emergence of integrated medicine, as its name suggests, integrated medicine is created by the integration or aggregation of different treatment methods. The experts who specialized in this field are familiar with other methods besides classical medicine and when someone comes to them with a specific problem, they consider all the available methods that they master, during the prioritization that takes place, it is determined which will be the first treatment for each person. Is it classical medicine? Is it acupuncture? Is it traditional medicine? And is it homeopathy? And is there another method? In this way, the combination of different treatment methods is called integrated medicine. So, the difference between integrative medicine and complementary medicine is that complementary medicine is a treatment method other than the conventional treatment method or classical medicine, while in integrative medicine, all methods with the focus of classical medicine participate together.