A third of Swiss people use complementary medicine each year – a growing trend, particularly present in French-speaking Switzerland. Between reimbursed treatments and “therapies” of all kinds, this summer, Heidi.news explores a subject that tenses as much as it highlights the limits of conventional medicine. Episode 5.
In Switzerland, a person in five regarding suffers from chronic pain. Whether it’s persistent pain following cancer or an operation, fibromyalgia, endometriosis, lupus, or even migraine, these pains – which persist for more than six months – weigh heavily on the daily lives of patients and affect their relationship to themselves and to others. Complex, they require support which is just as complex. Especially since they often do not respond, or respond poorly, to the usual analgesics.
“A lot of hope.” In Lausanne, the Center for Integrative and Complementary Medicine (Cemic) of the CHUV welcomes patients suffering from chronic pain, or from an odontological disease – of the teeth – every day, to offer them integrative care. That is to say, which includes the use of unconventional practices. As part of this follow-up, therapeutic consultations of hypnosis or acupuncture are notably open.
