While one-third of alternative treatments have some published literature supporting their use, research on alternative medicine is frequently of low quality and methodologically flawed, which might cause these results to be exaggerated.

In severe cases and those involving multiple conditions in addition to the cause of the neuralgia, there is no substitute for comprehensive palliative therapy including systemic NSAIDs, opioids, muscle relaxants, intermittent corticosteroids and other agents if needed and adjuncts and potentiators to increase the power of the analgesics in addition to the topical preparation and physical and alternative modalities such as physiotherapy, acupuncture, biofeedback and related modalities, nutritional approaches and many others relevant to each case.

In the context of alternative medicine the term is often used to refer to any substance claimed to cause ill health, ranging anywhere from trace amounts of pesticides to common food items like refined sugar or additives such as monosodium glutamate ( MSG ).

An alternative etymology is from, pherein phonon, " to bring ( or cause ) death ".

Quinine can cause hemolysis in G6PD deficiency ( an inherited deficiency ), but this risk is small and the physician should not hesitate to use quinine in patients with G6PD deficiency when there is no alternative.

The critical region of a hypothesis test is the set of all outcomes which cause the null hypothesis to be rejected in favor of the alternative hypothesis.

Edward's architect, James of St. George, may well have modelled the castle on the walls of Constantinople, possibly being aware of the alternative Welsh name Caer Gystennin ; in addition, Edward was a supporter of the Crusader cause.

An alternative theory is that these cause ambush predators such as spiders to approach from the wrong end and allow for early visual detection.

The most common cause of failure is incorrect diagnosis, and it should be noted that this surgery will only mitigate carpal tunnel syndrome, and will not relieve symptoms with alternative causes.

In an alternative version, Hera's crab was at the site to bite his feet and bother him, hoping to cause his death.

This would cause supporters of Collins to look for an alternative in 1997 which they failed to do in 1993.

It is issued when the defendant defaults on, or fails to show sufficient cause in answer to, an alternative mandamus.

An alternative theory was proposed by Peter J. Gierasch in the following year which held instead that the meridional ( Hadley ) circulation may transport the momentum by eddy-mixing .< ref > The actual cause of this phenomenon continues to be debated in the literature, with GCM experiments suggesting that both the Fels / Lindzen and Gierasch mechanisms are involved.

It was at this time that he became a fervent adherent of the precepts of homeopathy, a branch of alternative medicine that treats patients through the administration of " remedies " containing massively diluted forms of substances that, if given to a healthy person undiluted would cause symptoms similar to the disease.

The degree and pattern of baldness can vary greatly, but its most common cause is male and female pattern baldness, also known as androgenic alopecia, alopecia androgenetica or alopecia seborrheica – an alternative term used primarily in Europe.

Such theories include alternative models of dark energy, such as quintessence, phantom energy and some ideas in brane cosmology ; alternative models of dark matter, such as modified Newtonian dynamics ; alternatives or extensions to inflation such as chaotic inflation and the ekpyrotic model ; and proposals to supplement the universe with a first cause, such as the Hartle – Hawking boundary condition, the cyclic model, and the string landscape.

A pest is " a plant or animal detrimental to humans or human concerns ( as agriculture or livestock production )"; alternative meanings include organisms that cause nuisance and epidemic disease associated with high mortality ( specifically: plague ).

With more than 50 coalition partners and over 100 supporting organizations representing thousands of consenting adults who engage in alternative lifestyles, NCSF is the only organization in the United States with a dedicated mission to advance the cause of tolerance, non-discrimination and education for adults involved in alternative lifestyles.

Changing events in the past cause some exits further up the road, in the future, to become overgrown and inaccessible and new exits to appear, leading to different alternative futures.

This can cause one or more systems along the alternative route to go down, creating similar problems of their own.

An alternative view is that this surge in CDS protection buyers was a symptom rather than a cause of Bear's collapse ; i. e., investors saw that Bear was in trouble, and sought to hedge any naked exposure to the bank, or speculate on its collapse.

Together with the rest of Norway's student radio stations, Radio Nova introduced a shared endeavor to further the cause of independent / alternative music: a national student radio play-list.

With the failure of Magna Carta to achieve peace or restrain John, the barons reverted to the more traditional type of rebellion by trying to replace the monarch they disliked with an alternative.

:: Note: In networks that are based upon the partially connected mesh topology, the data that is transmitted between nodes in the network takes many shortest paths between nodes using a technology like Shortest Path Bridging, except in the case of a failure or break in one of the links, in which case the network uses the remaining alternative paths to the destination.

After the failure of the reunification attempt, Kamenev continued working in Proletariy and taught at the Bolshevik party school at Longjumeau near Paris that was created as a Leninist alternative to Bogdanov's Capri-based party school.

Most milking machines are powered by electricity but, in case of electrical failure, there can be an alternative means of motive power, often an internal combustion engine, for the vacuum and milk pumps.

All these models hinge on a number of assumptions from such disparate research areas as submarine explosions, discharges in gases, and failure of transformers, so it is not surprising that alternative models have been proposed more recently in the literature trying to explain the EDM process.

However, an alternative explanation was their opposition to modern scientific and social advances, such as contraception, vaccination, insurance, chemical fertilizers, and their failure to thrive in their home province of ( Zeeland, Netherlands ).

Peter had many qualities of those later monarchs educated in the centralization style, building a strong Royal administrative force ahead of his times, what was his ultimate failure, and to count or check all the feudal powers that rallied around to an alternative possibility, however illegitimate and opposite to the principles of aristocracy they represented themselves.

In 2001, Dmitriy Rogozin proposed moving the headquarters to St. Petersburg due to America's failure to pay its dues to the UN, saying " If the position of the Americans does not change and if as a result the international civil servants working in New York feel ever more uncomfortable, I think we will raise the question of moving the central UN headquarters to the ' Venice of the North ,' St. Petersburg ," During the period where the UN was facing delays in its efforts to refurbish its existing buildings, alternative sites considered as temporary sites also included the World Trade Center site being proposed as a new permanent facility.

This results in initial treatment failure and requires additional rounds of antibiotic therapy or alternative strategies, such as a quadruple therapy, which adds a bismuth colloid, such as bismuth subsalicylate.

These micromanagers thereby delegate accountability for failure but not the authority to take alternative actions that would have led to success or at least to the mitigation of that failure.

The data of Lane and colleagues indicating that non-operative treatment is successful only in mild cases is similarly marred by the lack of patients randomly assigned to alternative treatments and the use in many patients of a decision for surgery as a failure criterion.

With open circuit, this type of failure is unlikely, and the most common type of failure there, the lack of air flow, is obvious, and corrective steps ( like changing to an alternative supply ) would be taken immediately.

While absence of malignant cells on cytology does not completely exclude mesothelioma, it makes it much more unlikely, especially if an alternative diagnosis can be made ( e. g. tuberculosis, heart failure ).

In addition, traders performed the merchant function by making arrangements to supply the buyer of the crop through alternative sources — grain stores or alternate markets, for instance — in the event of crop failure.

Both Dorrell and his wife had already withdrawn their pensions but Dorrell claimed he had lost £ 550, 000 because of the failure and that alternative to the prepack would have offered less.

This has led to the commercial failure of several alternative DNS root providers.

This lack of social security and failure to develop alternative ways to support vulnerable families is the key reason that orphanages remain in many other countries.

Abraham Lincoln's rejection of the Crittenden Compromise, the failure to secure the ratification of the Corwin amendment in 1861, and the inability of the Washington Peace Conference of 1861 to provide an effective alternative to Crittenden and Corwin came together to prevent a compromise that is still debated by Civil War historians.

In the event of a failure of the network due a natural disaster, sabotage, power failure, or other network interruption, the mobile reading system is available in their disaster recovery plan as an alternative means of data collection to the fixed network.

Shortly before his death Forsythe rounded on Government authorities for their failure to tackle social security fraud by paramilitary groups and reiterated Unionist calls for flights between Great Britain and Northern Ireland to be exempt from air passenger duty, arguing that the tax placed Northern Ireland at a crying disadvantage compared with the rest of the United Kingdom given the limited alternative means of travelling between Belfast and London.

At first, the association was aimed at promoting alternative journalism, but before the failure of their project, the three founders stumbled on disagreements between themselves.