Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
See book keywords and concepts |  The doctor began a series of spinal manipulations, or adjustments, in that area and also used therapeutic touch in the middle part of the spine, using his hands to unblock energy in Jerry's back.
Jerry discontinued the array of herbal remedies that he was taking for sleep and saw the chiropractor six times over the next three weeks. At the end of the three weeks, Jerry's pain was reduced success story and all of his sleep and digestive problems were gone. |
Dawson Church
See book keywords and concepts |  It will be especially interesting to find out what gene changes occur before and after meditation, prayer, therapeutic touch, energy therapies, and other consciousness-based treatments. Links to relevant research can be found at www. EpigeneticMedicine.org, and on other research and medical sites. At Soul Medicine Institute, we are actively encouraging research on the protein and genetic components of changes in consciousness such as intention, belief, altruism, and prayer (see Appendix E for details of these experiments). |
Lynne Mctaggart
See book keywords and concepts |  These were instances in which an intermediary would use one of a variety of methods to attempt to send healing messages, through touch, prayer or some sort of secular intention. With therapeutic touch, the patient is supposed to relax and attempt to direct his or her attention inward while the healer lays hands on the patient and intends the patient to heal.
A typical study involved ninety-six patients with high blood pressure and a number of healers. Neither doctor nor patients were told who was being given the mental healing treatments. |
Marshall Editions
See book keywords and concepts |  Performing T'ai chi daily has been shown to be helpful and craniosacral chiropractic techniques (which involve massaging the skull), therapeutic touch, massage, and yoga may also be beneficial. Stress reduction techniques such as meditation are also highly recommended. Support groups and behavioral therapy are often helpful as well.
Diet and supplements: Evaluating and optimizing the adrenal and nutritional status of the body should be part of treatment. Eat whole grains, fruits, vegetables, and lean meats, and avoid processed foods to optimize energy. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  There is no such thing as bioenergy, intuition, mind-body medicine, quantum physics or therapeutic touch. The entire universe operates only on the physical and chemical levels. There is nothing beyond those two levels yet to be discovered or explored.
We already know everything there is to know. No new discoveries are necessary, nor are any paradigm shifts in scientific medicine. It is important that we all reject any new ideas or beliefs that threaten our existing ideas or beliefs.
Drug corporations should be protected because they have the best interests of the general public in mind. |
Michael Talbot
See book keywords and concepts |  Both the course and the technique proved so successful that Krieger has since taught therapeutic touch to literally thousands of nurses, and it is now used in hospitals around the world.
The effectiveness of therapeutic touch has also been demonstrated in several studies. For example, Dr. Janet Quinn, an associate professor and assistant director of nursing research at the University of South Carolina at Columbia, decided to see if therapeutic touch could lower the anxiety levels of heart patients. |
The Life Extension Editorial Staff
See book keywords and concepts |  These would include diverse modalities such as acupuncture, trans-electrical nerve stimulation (TENS), Reiki, therapeutic touch, all types of massage, hydrotherapy, self-hypnosis, yoga, Feldenkrais, and so forth. However, pains that are neurogenic in origin (when nerves have been damaged or cut) may respond less well to soft tissue techniques such as Reiki, therapeutic touch, and massage and more positively to acupuncture, nerve blocks, or treatment with opioid medications.
How should a person with a chronic pain condition approach healing using alternative or conventional methods? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  He has completed training in fields as diverse as Reiki (healing through therapeutic touch) and relational database programming. | | He has also donated therapeutic touch services to the elderly, volunteered at nursing homes and donated software licenses to groups as diverse as an animal rights group, a Jewish Community Center and the Dakota Squadron, a group of World War II veteran bomber pilots. In Tucson, Arizona, he donated thousands to a program to help buy bulletproof vests for police officers, and in Cody, Wyoming, he donated a pickup truck load of food and supplies to children and adults living in severe poverty. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  To them, the patient is more than just a number, and their array of potential treatments may span several modalities, including herbs, therapeutic touch, homeopathy, acupuncture or nutritional therapies. Natural medicine is largely based on nurturing or "female" thinking, which is focused on activating and supporting the body's own innate healing potential. (Naturopathy. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  The treatments in Chinese medicine include acupuncture, Chinese herbs, and Tui-Na, which resembles massage therapy combined with therapeutic touch. Chinese medicine has the longest history, and the most practical application, of any system of medicine in the world, outdating Western medicine by about 3800 years. In China, doctors were practicing relatively advanced medicine before the birth of Christ. |
Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  In a controlled trial, therapeutic touch, a type of hands-on healing, was found to significantly reduce tension headache pain for four hours following treatment.62 No further research has been done on this approach.
Reflexology, a specific treatment involving massage of various reflex zones on the feet, has only been investigated as a treatment for tension-type headache in one preliminary trial.63 A majority of people treated in this study reported being helped by this technique. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  You have to be from the universe of Western medicine to believe that vitamins are useless, that healing therapeutic touch has no benefit whatsoever and that the mind and body are disconnected. Yet those are things that Western medicine devoutly believes. You have to be living in an alternate universe -- the universe of organized medicine -- to believe all of these things.
I love the fact that all of the organized medicine researchers and med school doctors who graduated from these alternate realities say that alternative medicines and therapies are unproven. What are they talking about? | | If insurance covered vitamins, therapeutic touch, disease-fighting nutritional therapies, anti-cancer foods and supplements, therapies to reverse nervous disorders, acupuncture, Chinese medicine, Reiki and energy healing, then virtually everyone would switch over and start using natural therapies. Why? Because they work. You don't have to spend the rest of your life in a hospital, wired to a feeding tube, paying $10,000 a day, with pain and suffering until your dying day, trapped in a system of medicine that looks at you as nothing more than a profit generating machine. |
Michael Talbot
See book keywords and concepts | | The first class she taught on therapeutic touch was a master's level course for nurses at New York University entitled "Frontiers in Nursing: The Actualization of Potential for Therapeutic Field Interaction." Both the course and the technique proved so successful that Krieger has since taught therapeutic touch to literally thousands of nurses, and it is now used in hospitals around the world.
The effectiveness of therapeutic touch has also been demonstrated in several studies. For example, Dr. | | Because she knew terms such as aura and chakra would have negative connotations for many health-care professionals, she decided to call her healing method "therapeutic touch." The first class she taught on therapeutic touch was a master's level course for nurses at New York University entitled "Frontiers in Nursing: The Actualization of Potential for Therapeutic Field Interaction." Both the course and the technique proved so successful that Krieger has since taught therapeutic touch to literally thousands of nurses, and it is now used in hospitals around the world. |
Gary E. Schwartz and Linda G. S. Russek
See book keywords and concepts |  If future research confirms and extends the Reid (1987) findings, the integration of classical and quantum physics with contemporary-systems theory (including complexity, chaos, and dynamical energy systems) may pave the way for advancing the understanding of alternative and complementary medicine, and providing additional support for emerging new models of homeopathy, non-contact therapeutic touch, and other alternative healing practices. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  But there is a balance that can be achieved, and I think this balance is being achieved right now by those in naturopathic medicine and the healing arts like therapeutic touch. Yet this balance is not at all achieved by conventional medicine, because ethics and compassionate are simply not part of the curriculum.
I ask, how can a medical system that has no recognition of the humanity of patients expect to find success treating those patients? It can't. And that's why modern (western) medicine has failed. |
Sheldon P. Blau, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.A.C.R. and Elaine Fantle Shimberg
See book keywords and concepts |  In addition, studies now show that surgical patients fortunate enough to be cared for by nurses trained in the practice of "therapeutic touch" techniques tend to suffer less depression and less post-operative pain, thus requiring less medication and preventing the unwanted side effects that accompany many analgesics.
"Therapeutic touch," a technique that was developed in the early 1970s at the New York University Division of Nursing by Dolores Krieger, Ph.D., R.N., presently is used by thousands of nurses throughout the world. |
The Life Extension Editorial Staff
See book keywords and concepts | | In some instances, acupuncture, aquatic therapy, chiropractic, massage, self-hypnosis, stretching, tai chi, therapeutic touch, and yoga have proven helpful in managing CFS. Certain psy-chotherapies such as family therapy have shown promise in the development of coping skills that are necessary to counter the adverse effects of chronic illness on the family or patient's caregiver.
Prescription Medications
There are currently no FDA-approved prescription medications for use in treating CFS. There are, however, a number of medications that are used to treat the various symptoms of CFS. |
Sheldon P. Blau, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.A.C.R. and Elaine Fantle Shimberg
See book keywords and concepts | | Slightly over two weeks later, the wound site on thirteen of those receiving therapeutic touch were completely healed, while none in the untreated group were fully healed. Many other studies are now being conducted in the United States.
Don't ever hesitate to ask for someone to hold your hand, soothe your brow, or gently rub your feet. Family and friends may feel shy about offering, but may be more than willing to oblige. Ask if any of the nursing staff is trained in therapeutic touch, although many who are don't advertise the fact. |
The Life Extension Editorial Staff
See book keywords and concepts | | However, pains that are neurogenic in origin (when nerves have been damaged or cut) may respond less well to soft tissue techniques such as Reiki, therapeutic touch, and massage and more positively to acupuncture, nerve blocks, or treatment with opioid medications.
How should a person with a chronic pain condition approach healing using alternative or conventional methods? Many people with chronic pain conditions will be less than optimally nourished as a result of eating the standard American diet—consisting mostly of excess sugar, fat, and salt. | | For chronic or serious wounds, consider alternative treatments such as hyperbaric oxygen therapy, whirlpool therapy, ultrasound treatment, electrical stimulation, magnetic therapy, and therapeutic touch.
12. For wounds and fractures that do not heal as expected, it might be beneficial to seek help from a university orthopedic or plastic surgery section using local application of growth factors and new drugs that affect growth factors. For nonunion bone fractures, electrical stimulation is an option available at university hospitals as well as other institutions. |
Michael Castleman
See book keywords and concepts |  Krieger readily acknowledges the metaphysical nature of therapeutic touch as well as mainstream medicine's skepticism (even derision) about it. But she insists that it can reduce pain, anxiety and depression in adults, reduce stress in premature infants, accelerate wound healing, relieve premenstrual syndrome and boost metabolism by increasing the amount of oxygen carried in the blood.
Therapeutic touch is a contemporary version of the ancient practice of laying-on of hands. Dr. Krieger learned it from Dora Kunz, a traditional laying-hands practitioner. |
The Life Extension Editorial Staff
See book keywords and concepts | | Benefits of therapeutic touch included decreased depression, anger, and pain (Field etal. 1998).
RESEARCH: GROWTH FACTORS AND IMMUNE RESPONSE
As the name implies, growth factors are biological substances that exert their influence by causing cellular growth and proliferation. In an ideal wound-healing situation, new tissue growth would replace damaged tissue resulting from a wound with no functional or cosmetic impairment. In other words, the newly grown tissue would wotk as well as the previous tissue that was damaged, and it also would be identical in appearance. |
Larry Dossey
See book keywords and concepts |  Using intentions to aid wound healing
In a study involving humans, a practitioner of therapeutic touch held her hands a few inches away from surgical wounds and tried to heal them. (Therapeutic Touch is a technique that uses concentrated awareness and focused intention to bring about healing.) In this well-controlled, double-blind study, thirteen of the twenty-three "treatmerit" subjects were completely healed on day sixteen, while none of the "nontreatment" subjects was healed. |
Ralph Golan, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  D. The Therapeutic Touch: How to Use Your Hands to Help or Heal. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1979.
Leigh, William. Bodytherapy: From Rolf to Feldenkrais to Tanouye Roshi, 2nd ed. Vancouver, B.C.: Water Margin Press, 1989.
Lowe, Carl and Nechas, James W. Whole Body Healing. Emmaus, PA: Rodale Press.
Macrae, Janet. Therapeutic Touch: A Practical Guide. New York: Knopf, 1988.
Ohashi, Wataru. Do It Yourself Shiatsu. New York: NAL, 1976.
Pavek, Richard. The Handbook of SHEN (Specific Human Energy Nexus). Sausalito, CA: SHEN Therapy Institute, 1987.
Stone, Randolph, M.D. |
John Robbins
See book keywords and concepts |  Healing Sciences International in Orinda, California, designed an in-genius method to test the efficacy of therapeutic touch.55
The study went as follows: A group of willing college students had substantial experimental wounds made in their arms. They then placed their wounded arms through a hole in a wall that had been specially made for this purpose. They could not see what took place, if anything, on the other side of the wall, where their injured arms now lay. By random lot, some of them received therapeutic touch, and some of them did not. | | Dora Kunz and Dolores Krieger, professor of nursing at New York University, have developed a new and systematic version of the ancient art of laying on of hands, called therapeutic touch.
Every healing tradition in the world has long held that human touch can be a healing force, and that the energies that radiate from human beings influence others in their vicinity. therapeutic touch attempts to direct this energy for healing. Dolores Krieger believes that anyone can learn to do it. "It's a natural potential in all human beings, and this potential can be developed. |
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