Back اللمسة العلاجية Arabic Terapeutický dotek Czech Therapeutic Touch German Toque terapéutico Spanish لمس‌درمانی Persian Parantava kosketus Finnish Toucher thérapeutique French הילינג HE Tocco terapeutico Italian セラピューティック・タッチ Japanese

Therapeutic touch

Therapeutic touch
Alternative therapy
MeSHD019124
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Therapeutic touch (TT), or non-contact therapeutic touch (NCTT),[1] is a pseudoscientific[2] energy therapy which practitioners claim promotes healing and reduces pain and anxiety. "Therapeutic Touch" is a registered trademark in Canada for the "[s]tructured and standardized healing practice performed by practitioners trained to be sensitive to the receiver's energy field that surrounds the body;...no touching is required."[3]

Practitioners of therapeutic touch state that by placing their hands on, or near, a patient, they are able to detect and manipulate what they say is the patient's energy field.[4] One highly cited study, designed by the then-nine-year-old Emily Rosa and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1998, found that practitioners of therapeutic touch could not detect the presence or absence of a hand placed a few inches above theirs when their vision was obstructed.[5][6][7][8] Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst concluded in their 2008 book Trick or Treatment that "the energy field was probably nothing more than a figment in the imaginations of the healers".[9] The American Cancer Society noted, "Available scientific evidence does not support any claims that TT can cure cancer or other diseases."[10] A 2004 Cochrane review found no good evidence that it helped with wound healing, but the authors withdrew it in 2016 "due to serious concerns over the validity of included studies".[11]

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  3. ^ Canadian Trade-marks database, Registration No. TMA580182.
  4. ^ Bruno LC (1999). "Therapeutic touch". Encyclopedia of Medicine. Gale Research. Retrieved 2007-07-07.
  5. ^ Larry Sarner (December 2007). "Therapeutic Touch Study Data". QuackWatch.
  6. ^ Glazer S (2000). "Postmodern Nursing". The Public Interest. Archived from the original on 2007-02-25. Retrieved 2007-07-07.
  7. ^ Rosa L, Rosa E, Sarner L, Barrett S (April 1998). "A close look at therapeutic touch". JAMA. 279 (13): 1005–1010. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.592.8130. doi:10.1001/jama.279.13.1005. PMID 9533499.
  8. ^ Stenger V (1999). "The Physics of 'Alternative Medicine' Bioenergetic Fields" (PDF). The Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
  9. ^ Trick or Treatment. Corgi. 2008. pp. 267–268.
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  11. ^ O'Mathúna DP (September 2016). "WITHDRAWN: Therapeutic touch for healing acute wounds". The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2016 (9): CD002766. doi:10.1002/14651858.cd002766.pub6. PMC 6457586. PMID 27581995. 23/08/16 This review has been withdrawn due to serious concerns over the validity of included studies.
    The editorial group responsible for this previously published document have withdrawn it from publication.

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