Archive for the 'Therapeutic Touch' Category
Tuesday, January 1st, 2013
Researchers at Abbott Northwestern Hospital, in Chicago evaluated the effectiveness of an inpatient integrative medicine consult service for pain management. (more…)
Acupuncture/ pressure, Aromatherapy, Art, Music, Dance, Massage, Mindfulness, Pain, Reflexology, Therapeutic Touch | Comments Off on Results of nonpharmacological approaches to treating pain
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
Researchers from the UCLA Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research, Los Angeles, California think Reiki, therapeutic touch, and healing touch warrant further research. (more…)
Alzheimer's Dementia, Anxiety (Panic)/Depression, Cancer, Pain, Reiki, Therapeutic Touch | Comments Off on Biofield Therapies: Helpful or Full of Hype?
Monday, December 21st, 2009
Researchers from the University of Leeds, in the UK reviewed the options for caregivers of patients with dementia. (more…)
Alzheimer's Dementia, Art, Music, Dance, Exercise, Massage, Therapeutic Touch | Comments Off on Non-drug treatments for dementia
Saturday, July 25th, 2009
Medscape has published a review written by clinicians from around the US.
Let’s focus on 6 supportive care options for chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, aka chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and myalgic encephalomyelitis. (more…)
Anxiety (Panic)/Depression, Breathing, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Fatigue, Massage, Pain, Physiotherapy, Qigong, Relaxation, Tai Chi, Therapeutic Touch, Yoga | Comments Off on Supportive care for chronic fatigue syndrome
Thursday, April 16th, 2009
Actually, it’s not that easy to do.
Several years ago, Dr. Pamela Potter was supervising Reiki volunteers at Yale-New Haven Hospital in Connecticut as a doctoral candidate in the School of Nursing.
She’s qualified, if anyone is, to distinguish between these two disciplines.
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Anxiety (Panic)/Depression, Reiki, Relaxation, Therapeutic Touch | Comments Off on Distinguishing between reiki and therapeutic touch
Sunday, April 20th, 2008
A survey of more than 6000 US hospitals by the American Hospital Association reveals that among 1400 responders, the percentage of hospitals offering at least one CAM service increased from 8% in 1998 to 27% in 2005. (more…)
Acupuncture/ pressure, Art, Music, Dance, Chiropractic, Massage, Reiki/Touch, Tai Chi, Therapeutic Touch | Comments Off on More US hospitals offering CAM
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
A few years ago, a review of 30 studies of healing touch concluded, “no generalizable results were found.” In plain English that means there was no disease nor any group of patients with a disease where healing touch was a reliable treatment alternative.
A new study of healing touch in 12 veterans with neuropathic pain and the associated psychological distress from post spinal cord injury comes to the same conclusion.
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Anxiety (Panic)/Depression, Pain-Neuropathic, Relaxation, Therapeutic Touch | Comments Off on Healing touch: 31 unsuccessful studies and counting
Friday, February 1st, 2008
Professor Michel Tournaire and Dr. Anne Theau-Yonneau have reviewed the literature.
Few publications report a statistically significant reduction in labor pain? Here’s what we know about pain relief and other outcomes. I’ll summarize the more familiar options. (more…)
Acupuncture/ pressure, Anxiety (Panic)/Depression, Aromatherapy, Art, Music, Dance, Biofeedback, Homeopathy, Hypnosis, Lavender, Massage, Motherworth, Pregnancy, Raspberry Leaf, TENS/FNS/VNS, Therapeutic Touch | Comments Off on The value of CAM for pain relief during labor
