This book provides information on alternative and complementary therapies that can expand the healing spectrum for individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI). It discusses healing perspectives and paradigms that have not been a part of traditional modern medicine but that, nevertheless, comprised a key component of healing armamentaria throughout much of mankind’s history. The various subjects are frequently discussed from a holistic, mind– body–spirit view, in contrast to conventional medicine’s reductionistic orientation that views us as a sum of our body parts whether molecules, cells, organs, or a spinal cord, which can be repaired in isolation
