Arkansas Alternative Health

Alternative medicine has been described as "any of various systems of healing or treating disease (as chiropractic, homeopathy, or faith healing) not included in the traditional medical curricula taught in the United States and Britain".

Alternative medicine practices are often based in belief systems not derived from modern science. Alternative medicines may therefore incorporate spiritual, metaphysical, or religious underpinnings, untested practices, non-Western medical traditions, or newly developed approaches to healing.

These practices are often described as "Complementary and Alternative Medicine" or CAM.

If an alternative medical approach, initially regarded as untested, is subsequently shown to be safe and effective, it may then be adopted by conventional practitioners and no longer considered "alternative".

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Arkansas' gross domestic product for 2005 was $87 billion. Its per capita household median income (in current dollars) for 2004 was $35,295, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The state's agriculture outputs are poultry and eggs, soybeans, sorghum, cattle, cotton, rice, hogs, and milk. Its industrial outputs are food processing, electric equipment, fabricated metal products, machinery, paper products, bromine, and vanadium.

Several global companies are headquartered in the northwest corner of Arkansas, including Wal-Mart (the world's largest public corporation by revenue in 2007), J.B. Hunt and Tyson Foods. This area of the state has experienced an economic boom since the 1970s as a result.

In recent years, automobile parts manufacturers have opened factories in eastern Arkansas to support auto plants in other states. Additionally, the city of Conway is the site of a school bus factory.

Tourism is also very important to the Arkansas economy; the official state nickname "The Natural State" was originally created (as "Arkansas Is A Natural") for state tourism advertising in the 1970s, and is still regularly used to this day.

Arkansas Chiropractic Association - Features chiropractors in the state of Arkansas and chiropractic resources, Medicare news, and legislation briefs.

Arkansas State Board of Chiropractic Examiners - Features the state agency that administers licensing of chiropractors in Arkansas. Provides information about test and laws governing chiropractic care.

Ashtanga Yoga Center - Fayetteville, AR yoga facility features class schedule, events, and meditation resources.

Behavior Modification Center - Hypnotherapy support and training profile of hypnosis treatments. Contact information for classes and school are provided.

Eureka Massage Center - Overview of spa services and relaxation treatments available from their facility and its four professional therapists.

Gardner Chiropractic Clinic - Dr. Roger L. Gardner - Physician serving central Arkansas. Employs chiropractic spinal adjustments, low force techniques, physical therapy modalities and therapeutic massage. Conway, AR.

Holistic Arkansas - Features statewide resource directory of alternatives helping Arkansans, people who are new to Arkansas, as well as visitors to the Natural State find sources for healing themselves, the environment, and other aspects of a holistic lifestyle.

Little Rock Chiropractic - Highlights non-invasive services to prevent and correct deformities and to preserve and to improve the functions of bones, muscles, joints and their nerve supply, when such function is threatened or impaired by defects, lesions or disease.

The New Moon Spa - Features the Eureka Springs spa located in the Crescent Hotel and its services offering everything needed to bring mind and body to a state of total relaxation.

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Chiropractic

Chiropractic (from Greek chiros and praktikos meaning "done by hand") is a health care profession whose purpose is to diagnose and treat mechanical disorders of the spine and musculoskeletal system with the intention of affecting the nervous system and improving health.
Chiropractic treatments vary depending on the patient's condition and the type of approach taken by the particular chiropractor. They commonly include spinal adjustments, although other interventions may be used as well.