Complementary & Alternative Medicine

Study shows complementary alternative medicine reduces pain and tension in heart surgery patients

Published in Drug Week, April 14th, 2006

A recent study led by Vibhu R. Kshettry, MD, a cardiovascular surgeon from the Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbott Northwestern Hospital, shows that those patients who receive complementary alternative medical therapies, including music, massage and guided imagery, before and after open heart surgery, experience less pain and tension during recovery than patients who receive standard care.

The study, which was funded by the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation and is published in Annals of Thoracic Surgeons, is believed to be the first randomized study of complementary alternative therapy in heart surgery patients. It included 104 men and women who were...

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