Touch Healing (TH) therapies, defined here as treatments whose primary route of administration is tactile contact and/or active guiding of somatic attention, are ubiquitous across cultures. Despite increasing integration of TH into mainstream medicine through therapies such as Reiki, Therapeutic Touch,(TM) and somatically focused meditation practices such as Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, ...

UNLABELLED OBJECTIVE AND CONTEXT: This review was designed to assess the quality and review the outcomes of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of biofield therapies (external qigong, Healing Touch, Johrei, Reiki, and Therapeutic Touch) that report using only nonphysical touch forms of treatment. RCTs of nonphysical contact biofield therapies have the potential to contribute to an evidence base...

OBJECTIVES Our objective was to assess the effect of Therapeutic Touch (TT) on the proliferation of normal human cells in culture compared to sham and no treatment. Several proliferation techniques were used to confirm the results, and the effect of multiple 10-minute TT treatments was studied. DESIGN Fibroblasts, tendon cells (tenocytes), and bone cells (osteoblasts) were treated with TT, sh...

Complementary therapies are increasingly used to reduce side effects of cancer treatment, without evidence for their effectiveness. In a randomized, prospective, 2-period, crossover intervention study, the authors tested the effects of therapeutic massage (MT) and healing touch (HT), in comparison to presence alone or standard care, in inducing relaxation and reducing symptoms in 230 subjects. ...

BACKGROUND Alternative medical therapies are widely utilized, but there are few objective data to evaluate the effectiveness of these techniques. The purpose of this study was to determine whether one alternative therapy, Therapeutic Touch (TT), can improve objective indices of median nerve function in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome. METHODS Participants with electrodiagnostically confi...

Abstract The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet awarded the 2021 Prize in Physiology and Medicine jointly to David Julius Ardem Patapoutian for their discoveries of receptors temperature touch. TRP Piezo channels also have several additional physiological functions, so targeting functions could be a promising therapeutic target different diseases, including management pain.

This statement is incorrect. Nurse Healers–Professional Associates International, Inc (NH-PAI), the official organization for TT, has had Standards of Care, Scope of Practice, and Therapeutic Touch Policy and Procedure for Health Professionals in place for a number of years. The organization was founded in 1977 and has had criteria for practice and teaching, including levels of advancement for ...

Abstract The aim of the study was to find out how values and norms related touch are perceived in physiotherapist-patient relationship. 149 physiotherapists 100 patients participated study. questionnaire used survey prepared two versions, both containing same 30 items describing use therapeutic from perspectives. respondents had provide their answers on 6-point ordinal scales with centre exclud...