Epilepsy: Complementary and Alternative Treatments

✍ Scribed by Sally Baxendale

• Publisher: The Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 126
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Epilepsy, or seizure disorder, is widespread, affecting more than 350,000 in the UK, and an estimated three million approximately in the US. While anti-epileptic drugs have a major role in preventing seizure activity, they may not be totally effective in achieving control, and there is a strong burgeoning interest in lifestyle measures and complementary therapies which may help. This book is intended to be a trusted source to help people with epilepsy make sense of the treatment choices, given that epilepsy is not a single condition and some treatments may work for some but not other forms of the condition. Each chapter includes information about the treatment, evidence, whether it will work for your type of epilepsy, and practical considerations.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover page......Page 1
About the author......Page 2
Overcoming common problems series......Page 3
Title page......Page 16
Imprint......Page 17
Sir Edward Henry Sieveking's wisdom......Page 18
Table of contents......Page 19
Foreword......Page 21
Acknowledgements......Page 23
Note to the reader......Page 24
1. Introduction......Page 25
2. The importance of evidence......Page 31
3. Stress......Page 37
4. Behavioural approaches to seizure control......Page 42
5. Exercise......Page 48
6. Diet......Page 53
7. Herbal remedies......Page 60
8. Ayurvedic medicine......Page 65
9. Traditional chinese medicine......Page 69
10. Meditation and hypnosis......Page 76
11. Aromatherapy......Page 81
12. Physical manipulation therapies: chiropractic care and craniosacral therapy......Page 86
13. Homoeopathy......Page 89
14. Light therapy......Page 94
15. Oxygen......Page 100
16. Neurofeedback......Page 103
17. Music therapy......Page 106
18. Pet therapy......Page 112
19. Conclusions......Page 117
Useful addresses......Page 121
Further reading......Page 124
Search items......Page 125