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Does therapeutic touch help reduce pain and anxiety in patients with cancer?
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With more than 10 million patients with cancer in the United States, pain and symptom management is an important topic for oncology nurses. Complementary therapies, such as therapeutic touch, may offer nurses a nonpharmacologic method to ease patients' pain. Using 12 research studies, the authors examined the evidence concerning the effectiveness of this type of treatment in reducing pain and anxiety.
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More than 10 million people in the United States had some form of cancer in 2007, including 1,444,920 newly diagnosed cases. Prostate and breast cancer rank among ...
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The elderly require a "special touch": touching expresses caring, and the quality of care improves.
Magazine article from: Nursing Homes
; ...way elderly perceive nursing care. And therapeutic touch, an advanced form of expressive touch...grows, and the lives of both are changed. Therapeutic Touch Therapeutic touch is a form of using expressive touch in...
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Energy medicine and consciousness.(BookCorners)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
; The Spiritual Dimension of Therapeutic Touch by Dora Kunz with Dolores Krieger...Krieger, pioneer researcher on healing, Therapeutic Touch (TT) has been taught in hospitals...separately) a number of books on Therapeutic Touch and Human Energy Fields. The Spiritual...
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Alternative Nursing.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Change
; ...observations. The latter school promotes therapeutic touch, a technique introduced in the 1970s...demonstrates any health benefit from therapeutic touch. Denouncing the JAMA article, an...of Nursing editorial charged that therapeutic touch was being attacked by reactionary...
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Psychoneuroimmunoendocrinology. (Review and Commentary).
Magazine article from: Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
; ...clinical picture. Osteoarthiritis and Therapeutic Touch Eighty-two free-living elderly osteoarthritis...intervals, they received 6 sessions of Therapeutic Touch or progressive relaxation. Visual...scales were used for pain assessment. Therapeutic Touch decreased pain and distress ...
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Is faith healing better than a trip to the doctor?(Lifestyles)
Magazine article from: Jet
; ...a technique known as non-contact therapeutic touch, prayer on someone's behalf and other...23 studies analyzed, 11 examined therapeutic touch, five studied the effectiveness of...was found in the studies involving therapeutic touch, a controversial practice founded...
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Area expert on grieving trauma dies.(General News)(Obituary: Neila Campbell, a well-known death educator, loses her six-month battle with cancer.)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
; ...she also was a grief counselor, therapeutic touch trainer and a volunteer coordinator...director for two years. She became a therapeutic touch trainer in 1987 and developed the Northwest Therapeutic Touch Institute in 1998. She also linked...
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Ill patients receive touch therapy with Sorme's help. (Photo News).
Magazine article from: Household & Personal Products Industry
; ...Sorme's Cosmetics donated money to the Whispering Winds Therapeutic Touch Team Inc., a non-profit organization based in the greater...designed to ease the pain of the seriously ill through therapeutic touch. Sorme also aided the group in filming its first public...
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Upcoming special events: sponsored by infinity institute.(Brief Article)(Calendar)
Newspaper article from: Subconsciously Speaking
; ...Presenter Anne Spencer-Beacham May 18, 19 Parts Therapy Presenter Jaime Feldman June 8, 9 Ericksonian Hypnosis Pt 2 Presenter Peter Blum July 12,13,24 Basic NLP Presenter Will Horton Aug. 3,4 Therapeutic Touch Nov. 30 & Dec. 1 Therapeutic Touch
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"Therapeutic Touch": a critique.
Magazine article from: Catholic Insight
; ...available to the Canadian public. One of these is called Therapeutic Touch (TT). Other techniques include Reiki (use of 'universal...prana', also, 'vitalforce', and 'human energy field' (HEF). Therapeutic Touch was introduced to North America by Delores Krieger, Ph...
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Shrink control: The limits of a psychiatrist's skepticism. (Cultures & Reviews).
Magazine article from: Reason
; ...critics of conventional medicine, for example, promote therapeutic touch, a form of quackery that has gained acceptance at many...to adjust his human energy field. Satel's debunking of therapeutic touch goes beyond a rhetorical eye roll. She discusses the technique...
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