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- 1From:Iranian Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Research (Vol. 21, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedByline: Pegah. Matourypour, Zohreh. Vanaki, Zahra. Zare, Valiolah. Mehrzad, Mojtaba. Dehghan, Mehdi. Ranjbaran Background: Nausea and vomiting are the worst and the most prevalent complications experienced by...
- 2From:Evidence - Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (Vol. 2015) Peer-ReviewedEvidence-based integrative medicine therapies have been introduced to promote wellness and offset side-effects from cancer treatment. Energy medicine is an integrative medicine technique using the human biofield to...
- 3From:The Fourth World Journal (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedFrom the jungle of west Mexico to the tangled streets of Boston healing touch has a powerful effect on the physical and mental well being of those who receive touch therapies. While conventional health institutions...
- 4From:Midwives MagazinePeer-ReviewedBy happy coincidence, I became pregnant at the same time as a friend who lives in Paris. As we compared notes, I became intrigued by a practice called 'haptonomy, which involved communicating with the baby and was...
- 5From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 19, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article aims to increase the understanding of therapeutic touch (TT) and its role in supporting patients with cancer through the different stages of illness. The article includes a number of narratives, collected...
- 6From:Journal of Family Practice (Vol. 47, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn this issue of the Journal, Gordon and colleagues[1] present the results of a small prospective randomized, single-blinded clinical trial of therapeutic touch (TT) in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis. They found...
- 7From:Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWith 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...
- 8From:Massage Therapy Journal (Vol. 46, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn 2003, Connecticut Center for Massage Therapy (CCMT) instructor Linda Derick was grilling dinner on a warm December night in Andover, Connecticut with a colleague who was in town to guest lecture. Afterwards, talk...
- 9From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 16, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedConsoling touch is a powerful form of social support that has been repeatedly demonstrated to reduce the experience of physical pain. However, it remains unknown whether touch reduces emotional pain in the same way that...
- 10From:Townsend Letter: The Examiner of Alternative Medicine (Issue 283) Peer-ReviewedThere are few systematic investigations of the potential benefits of incidental touch as it occurs in medical health care settings. In this laboratory study, 60 college students participated in two testing sessions one...
- 11From:Anthropology in Action (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article explores the various ways of communicating with people with dementia during dance sessions and how creative movement can support people to create meaning in the moment. The following did not originate in...
- 12From:Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy (Vol. 53, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe boundary work approach has been established as one of the main ways to study controversies in science. However, it has been proposed that it does not meet the power dynamics of the scientific field sufficiently....
- 13From:Community CareA scheme supports carers offering single placement therapeutic fostering to achieve some consistency in the lives of looked-after young people. Graham Hopkins reports "It feels like you're just being passed from...
- 14From:Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week2019 SEP 14 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Investigators discuss new findings in Complementary and Alternative Medicine - Therapeutic Touch. According to news...
- 15From:Progress in Health Sciences (Vol. 11, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedPurpose: This study is a cross-sectional study whose purpose was to investigate the level of knowledge of nursing students regarding Therapeutic Touch (TT). Materials and methods: The study population was comprised of...
- 16From:Visions: The Journal of Rogerian Nursing Science (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAs new editor of the practice column, I am pleased to introduce the writing of a graduate student of mine in the Wilson School of Nursing: Nicole Hooper. She has written this manuscript as part of her master's degree...
- 17From:Massage Therapy Journal (Vol. 47, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedI enjoyed the variety and wealth of information in your winter issue. Although I agree with the statement that appears next to a photo of my mother on page 84 in the "Forget-Me-Not" article, I wanted to correct a minor...
- 18From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 21, Issue 46) Peer-ReviewedAfter minor hospital treatment recently I was pleased to find that I had been prescribed some heavy-duty opioid analgesia. I was reassured that, should I have a lower pain threshold than most, this would be understood,...
- 19From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 19, Issue 41) Peer-ReviewedAs a nurse, clinical holistic touch therapist and lecturer in integrated holistic therapies, I am committed to integrating touch therapies into patient care. As nursing becomes increasingly 'hands off', the need for...
- 20From:Journal of Family Practice (Vol. 47, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND. The purpose of this study was to determine if therapeutic touch, an alternative medicine modality, is effective in the treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee. METHODS. A single-blinded randomized control...