Alternative medicine is frequently grouped with complementary medicine or integrative medicine, which, in general, refers to the same interventions when used in conjunction with mainstream techniques, under the umbrella term complementary and alternative medicine, or CAM.

* Alternative dispute resolution, processes and techniques outside the traditional mainstream of jurisprudence

The US National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine ( NCCAM ) classifies CAM therapies into five categories or domains, including: alternative medical systems, or complete systems of therapy and practice ; mind-body interventions, or techniques designed to facilitate the mind's effect on bodily functions and symptoms ; biologically based systems including herbalism ; and manipulative and body-based methods such as chiropractic and massage therapy.

Alternative techniques included inserting microdots into slits cut into the edge of post cards.

Alternative techniques for airway management and delivery of oxygen, volatile anesthetics or other breathing gases include the laryngeal mask airway, i-gel, cuffed oropharyngeal airway, continuous positive airway pressure ( CPAP mask ), nasal BiPAP mask, simple face mask, and nasal cannula.

Mind – body interventions is the name of a U. S. National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine ( NCCAM ) classification that covers a variety of techniques intended by practitioners to enhance the mind's capacity to affect bodily function and symptoms.

* Alternative dispute resolution, dispute resolution processes and techniques that act as a means for disagreeing parties to come to an agreement short of litigation.

Alternative search-based techniques are based on targeted projection pursuit which finds low-dimensional projections of the data that score highly: the features that have the largest projections in the lower dimensional space are then selected.

Alternative therapies that cover a variety of techniques claimed to enhance the mind's capacity to affect bodily function and symptoms.

Alternative airway management devices must be immediately available, in the event the trachea cannot be intubated using conventional techniques.

Alternative analog modulation schemes are under discussion, such as the " CLIMAX " multi-carrier system and offset carrier techniques to permit more efficient utilization of spectrum.

Alternative transparent techniques include displaying all or part of the e-mail address on a webpage as an image, a text logo shrunken to normal size using inline CSS, or as text with the order of characters jumbled, placed into readable order at display time using CSS.

Alternative wavefront sensing techniques to the Shack-Hartmann system are emerging.

Alternative techniques are used wherever possible and all efforts are made to ensure any animals are treated humanely.

Ayurveda, Chinese medicine, Homeopathy and Naturopathy are cited as examples The term appears to have entered into usage through the National Institute of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine ( NCCAM ), which began to employ it as a substitute for alternative medical systems as a way of differentiating widely comprehensive systems of medicine, such as Ayurvedic medicine, from specialized alternative approaches.

Alternative WD1770 / DFS Interfaces such as the P. R. E. S AP4 left & PAGE at E00h.

Alternative terms such as " cracker " were coined in an effort to distinguish between those adhering to the historical use of the term " hack " within the programmer community and those performing computer break-ins.

Alternative social doctrines were elaborated by such Russian radicals as Alexander Herzen and Peter Kropotkin.

Some new bands, such as London's Alternative TV, Edinburgh's Rezillos, and Leamington's The Shapes, identified with the scene even as they pursued more experimental music.

Alternative β forms denoted β1i, β2i, and β5i can be expressed in hematopoietic cells in response to exposure to pro-inflammatory signals such as cytokines, in particular, interferon gamma.

The Alternative Elfstedentocht races take part in other countries, such as Austria, Finland or Canada, and all top marathon skaters, as well as thousands of recreative skaters, travel from the Netherlands to the location where the race is held.

Alternative sources of labor, such as indentured servitude, failed to provide a sufficient workforce.

Alternative names for the " Earl / Count " rank in the nobility structure are used in other countries, such as Hakushaku during the Japanese Imperial era.

Alternative sweeteners such as xylitol and saccharin have many positive research results that show qualities of dental decay prevention.

Alternative approaches to exception handling in software are error checking, which maintains normal program flow with later explicit checks for contingencies reported using special return values or some auxiliary global variable such as C's

Alternative treatments under investigation include the inhibition of zonulin, an endogenous signalling protein linked to increased permeability of the bowel wall and hence increased presentation of gliadin to the immune system, and other modifiers of other well-understood steps in the pathogenesis of coeliac disease, such as the action of HLA-DQ2 or tissue transglutaminase and the MICA / NKG2D interaction that may be involved in the killing of enterocytes.

Alternative methods, such as the dutch auction have also been explored.

In addition LSE, hosts several business and political conferences, with prestigious speakers such as the LSE Alternative Investment Conference.

Alternative local standards of care exist, such as in the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy.

Alternative circuits had evolved, such as Working Men's Clubs.

Alternative sensory information may suddenly seem present, such as intense vibrations, noises and sight through closed eyelids.

The U. S. National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine has issued an advisory indicating the marketing claims made about colloidal silver are scientifically unsupported, the silver content of marketed supplements varies widely, and colloidal silver products can have serious side effects to the consumer, including " argyria ,... neurologic problems ( such as seizures ), kidney damage, stomach distress, headaches, fatigue, and skin irritation.

American new wave audiences were most familiar with " Let Me Go ", which received high rotation airplay on Alternative / New Wave format radio stations, such as Los Angeles, California's KROQ-FM, and Long Island, New York's WLIR, plus frequent MTV exposure.

Alternative suggestions have been proposed, such as the speculation " maybe fancifully " that the name derives from two words for death: tod and mor ( as in mort ), meaning " death-death-wood ", or that the name meant " marshy home of the fox ", from the Old English.

Alternative over-water vehicles such as wave-piercing catamarans ( marketed as the SeaCat in the UK until 2005 ) use less fuel and can perform most of the hovercraft's marine tasks.

During the 1970s, two large pillars flanking the entrance to the Infinite Corridor were partially wrapped in paper and used by the liberal " Alternative Advertising " and somewhat less liberal " Pillar Productions " where students would scrawl responses to issues of the day such as nuclear power or whether disco sucked.

Alternative spaces are also available, such as " happening spaces ", which trigger an event exclusive to the current board.

Alternative waste-cover materials are chipped wood or other " green waste ", several sprayed-on foam products, chemically ' fixed ' bio-solids and temporary blankets.

Alternative views on this topic are given by famous British-Australian physicist John Ward and laser physicist Frank Duarte.

Alternative MLIS schemes are currently being developed ( using a first laser in the near-infrared or visible region ) where an enrichment of over 95 % can be obtained in a single stage, but the methods have not ( yet ) reached industrial feasibility.

Alternative designs make use of multiple lasers ; in these designs, each laser can be independently controlled ( pulsed on and off ) to simulate playback of prerecorded notes.