By Alan Mozes
HealthDay Reporter

Three out of every four U.S. health-care workers use some form of complementary or alternative medicine or practice to help stay healthy, a new report shows.

What’s more, doctors, nurses and their assistants, health technicians, and healthcare administrators were actually morelikely than the general public to use any number of wide-ranging alternative medicine options, including massage, yoga, acupuncture, Pilates or herbal medicines.

“No one has really done this sort of analysis before, so when I saw our results I was authentically surprised,” acknowledged study co-author Lori Knutson, executive director of the Penny George Institute for Health and Healing with the Allina Health System in Minneapolis. “But pleasantly so. Because clearly this means that even our health-care workers are recognizing the need for alternative options in the search for ways to improve our health and lives.”

Knutson and her colleagues reported their findings this month in the journal Health Services Research.

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