ArticleJournal of immigrant and minority health2017
Mexican Sobadores in North Carolina: Manual Therapy in a New Settlement Context.
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- The Role of Traditional Healers in Musculoskeletal Care for Hispanic and Latino/a Americans: A Systematic Review.JBJS reviews · 2026Pooled it
- Parallels Between Cupping in Traditional Chinese Medicine andMedical acupuncture · 2024Article
- Supportive care for cancer-related symptoms in pediatric oncology: a qualitative study among healthcare providers.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2023Article
- Traditional Healers as Health Care Providers for the Latine Community in the United States, a Systematic Review.Health equity · 2022Review
- Conventional and Complementary Therapy Use among Mexican Farmworkers in North Carolina: Applying the I-CAM-Q.Journal of agromedicine · 2019Article
- Medical Pluralism in the Use of Sobadores among Mexican Immigrants to North Carolina.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2018Article
- An ethnographic study of salt use and humoral concepts in a Latino farm worker community in California's Central Valley.Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine · 2017Article
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Abstract
Latino immigrants to the New Settlement area of the southeastern United States face structural and cultural obstacles to accessing the conventional health care system, and come from areas with long traditions of medical treatments from healers without professional training or licensure. Little is known about the use of such healers in New Settlement areas. This study focuses on sobadores, healers who use manipulative therapy. Goals were to describe sobadores practicing in North Carolina, including their background, conditions treated, and their understanding of the pathophysiology of their patients' conditions and how their treatments work. The paper also describes who sobadores treat and sobadores' understanding of where their treatment fits into patients' pursuit of relief from symptoms. This focused ethnography draws from in-depth, semi-structured interviews conducted with six sobadores from Mexico practicing in North Carolina. These sobadores appear to meet both structural and cultural needs for healthcare in the immigrant Latino population.
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