Small Business Complementary Medicine: A Profile of Therapists and Their Pathways to Practice

The provision and use of complementary medicine (CM) sector has grown rapidly. Indeed, A. J. Vickers suggests that between 7% and 11% of people visit complementary therapists every year, and K. Thomas et al estimates that 33% of the population have used some form of CM at least once in their lives. Of the 426 respondents, 155 (36.4%) were male, and 269 (63.1%) were female (0.5% non-response). The youngest of the respondents was 25 years old, …