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 Therapeutic Touch is a treatment recognized as a complementary therapy in many health care settings. It works within the energy field of the body to assist the client to rebalance and re-harmonize and promotes deep relaxation and pain relief. The basic assumption in Therapeutic Touch is that there exists an inner drive in all human beings towards growth, order and wholeness, at all levels of the body. The Therapeutic Touch practitioner utilizes these energies to assist the client to re-pattern his/her own energy fields towards that innate drive toward the natural process of healing. Therapeutic Touch was developed specifically for use by health care professionals as an extension of their professional skills. It grew out of the observations of Dolores Krieger Ph.D., R.N., professor emeritus from New York University (NYU), and her mentor, the late Dora Kunz, a natural healer. Therapeutic Touch is derived from ancient indigenous healing arts, used in many different parts of the world, usually known as the "Laying on of Hands". Science has proven that human beings do not "stop at their skin". They, in fact, give out or radiate energies that can now be measured. Within these energy fields, people constantly interact with the world around them. Therapeutic Touch is known as a very gentle and unobtrusive type of treatment. Very little touching is done during the procedure and the client remains fully covered or clothed. When other types of care are contraindicated or simply aren't providing the necessary relief, Therapeutic Touch can be wonderfully advantageous. The Effects and Benefits of Therapeutic Touch:Therapeutic Touch is considered a scientifically based intervention, primarily because of the large body of research credited with verifying its effectiveness. Research has validated the benefits of Therapeutic Touch in pain management, dermal (skin) wound healing, increases in hemoglobin levels, decreases in anxiety and stress levels, childbirth, spousal relationships, psycho-immunologic effects on practitioners and those who are bereaved, to name a few.Studies completed at the University of Alabama's Center for Nursing Research indicated the positive effect of Therapeutic Touch on stress reduction and immune functioning in persons with AIDS . On the whole, Therapeutic Touch is regularly used throughout one's entire life, from premature newborns in hospitals to people in palliative care, to restore a sense of well-being and wholeness. It mobilizes the individual's own healing energies to restore health, balance and order and create a feeling of integration and equilibrium.
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