UNLABELLED Complementary therapies are increasingly used in palliative care as an adjunct to the standard management of symptoms to achieve an overall well-being for patients with malignant and non-malignant terminal illnesses. A Therapeutic Touch Program was introduced to a geriatric Palliative Care Unit (PCU) in October 2010 with two volunteer Therapeutic Touch Practitioners providing treatme...

Background: Neonates are more sensitive to pain and likely to suffer from its long-term complications. Therefore, various methods including non-nutritive sucking, sensory stimulations, and various supportive interventions are employed to relieve pain in newborns. Aim: This study aimed to compare the effects of Yakson therapeutic touch and heel warming on pain caused by heel stick procedure, vit...

Contemporary nursing theories increasingly promote nursing as a specialist field facilitating patient wellbeing through therapeutic, qualitative approaches directed toward individual patient needs. Therapeutic touch is one such approach. The Nurse Healer’s Professional Associates International (NH-PAI) defines therapeutic touch as ‘a contemporary interpretation of several ancient-healing practi...

BACKGROUND Anxiety disorders are a common occurrence in today's society. There is interest from the community in the use of complementary therapies for anxiety disorders. This review examined the currently available evidence supporting the use of therapeutic touch in treating anxiety disorders. OBJECTIVES To examine the efficacy and adverse effects of therapeutic touch for anxiety disorders. ...

OBJECTIVE To review and critique the research on the effect of massage therapy and therapeutic touch in children, and to describe clinical implications and make suggestions for future study. DATA SOURCES Studies were obtained through online computer searches of CINAHL, MEDLINE, PsychInfo, and SocioFile. Key words used were tactile, kinesthetic, massage therapy, touch, therapeutic touch, infan...

Background: In Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), the premature infant is often placed under incubator, phototherapy and with several cords and tubing connected all over body. They are subjected both to highly stressful environment (noise, bright light, frequent care related handling) and are often deprived of tactile stimulation that they would otherwise experience in general mothering care....

Touch can be seen as inherently human. From the earliest times of Man’s development, touch has been part of everyday rituals and life – varying between affectionate touch, through neutral touch of everyday life to aggressive touch for establishing dominance in a group or for self defence, often needing therapeutic touch as a consequence. The latter taking the form of rubbing, kneading, effleura...