Talk:Alternative medicine

message: This sounds like it was written by the American Medical Association, to disparage anything that isn't big pharma and big corpoate medical profits. 2601:881:8102:97E0:EAB1:1FAA:B3F1:16B4 (talk) 03:03, 4 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: See Lunatic charlatans. JJPMaster (she/they) 03:05, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

text: If you have a specific change you'd like to make to the article, you may suggest it here.  OverzealousAutocorrect (talk) 22:50, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too skeptical  

message: insert this subsection under Types. Many of these techniques appear on the List of forms of alternative medicine and their articles reference the Alternative medicine page but there is very little mention of these here. 
Besides the above reason, inclusion of this section will add the small amount of nuance about the subgroup of alternative medicine based on anecdotal or placebo based treatments with a lack of direct negative side-effects, as well as "treatments" science is unequiped to extract causality from due to difficulty of blinded trials, as mentioned above in A Biased Perspective?
===Physical therapy and related disciplines===
Physical therapy, along with related disciplines like Pilates, Yoga as therapy, and Tai chi, focuses primarily on the treatment of musculoskeletal issues and occupies a unique position on the fringe of conventional medicine, largely due to challenges in conducting standardized medical trials for addressing specific problems. These practices, which include manipulative techniques such as osteopathy and massage, as well as other methods like foam-rolling, manual lymphatic drainage, acupressure, taping, and sauna, often lack definitive proof of effect. Nonetheless, they are some of the few alternative medicine practices frequently recommended by healthcare professionals and sometimes funded by healthcare providers due to their minimal risk of harm. However, their use in place of established treatments for serious conditions, such as cancer, can still lead to adverse outcomes. Elkir (talk) 15:51, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: . The sources provided don't support the content. Is it common in the literature that physical therapy is described as alternative medicine? Are there sources that support it holding a "unique position on the fringe"? Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 16:28, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add Type: Physical therapy 

message: Physical therapy, along with related disciplines like Pilates, Yoga as therapy, and Tai chi, focuses primarily on the treatment of musculoskeletal issues and occupies a unique position on the fringe of conventional medicine, largely due to challenges in conducting standardized medical trials for addressing specific problems. These practices, which include manipulative techniques such as osteopathy and massage, as well as other methods like foam-rolling, manual lymphatic drainage, acupressure, taping, and sauna, often lack definitive proof of effect. Nonetheless, they are some of the few alternative medicine practices frequently recommended by healthcare professionals and sometimes funded by healthcare providers due to their minimal risk of harm. However, their use in place of established treatments for serious conditions, such as cancer, can still lead to adverse outcomes. Elkir (talk) 15:51, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: . The sources provided don't support the content. Is it common in the literature that physical therapy is described as alternative medicine? Are there sources that support it holding a "unique position on the fringe"? Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 16:28, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Physical therapy and related disciplines