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	therapeutic touch
		Therapeutic touch (TT) is a type of energy medicine whereby the therapist moves his or her hands over the patient’s “energy field,” allegedly directing the flow of chi or prana so the patient can heal.
		A grant proposal to study therapeutic touch on burn victims asserts: “Quantum theory states that all of reality is made up of energy fields and that over 99% of the universe is simply space.” Another defender claims
		In practicing Therapeutic Touch, one attempts to influence this energy imbalance towards health to restore the integrity of this field.
	skepdic.com /tt.html (0 words)

	THERAPEUTIC TOUCH INFORMATION
		Therapeutic Touch is one of these healing techniques; it is a non-invasive, holistic approach to healing which stimulates the receiver's own recuperative powers.
		Therapeutic Touch was developed in the early 1970's by a remarkable woman, Dolores Krieger, Ph.D., R.N., then a Professor of Nursing at New York University, and her mentor, the late Dora Kunz, a well-respected "natural" healer.
		And because Therapeutic Touch promotes relaxation, reduces anxiety, and often alters a person's perception of pain it is especially useful in hospice work, allowing volunteers and family members a positive way to "utilize" their compassionate feelings, giving them an effective form through which their loving feelings are organized in a positive and healing way.
	www.therapeutictouch.com /tt1.html (1591 words)

	Therapeutic Touch \| Holistic Health \| HolisticWebWorks.com
		Therapeutic Touch is a form of energy medicine.
		Therapeutic Touch developed within the American nursing tradition in the 1970's and is now taught in hospitals throughout the world.
		Practitioners of Therapeutic Touch further assume that an individual's body, mind, and spirit form a complex energy field – a biofield -- that extends beyond the surface of the body.
	www.holisticwebworks.com /Holistic-Webworks-Therapeutic-Touch.htm (319 words)

	Therapeutic touch fails to detect 'human energy fields': 4/3
		Therapeutic touch practitioners, who claim to treat many medical conditions by using their hands to manipulate a "human energy field," failed to detect the "field" under test conditions, according to an article in the April 1 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
		Therapeutic touch is grounded on the concept that people have an "energy field" that is readily detectable and modifiable by therapeutic touch practitioners.
		Therapeutic touch was conceived in the early 1970s by Dolores Krieger, Ph.D., R.N., a faculty member at New York University's Division of Nursing.
	www.musc.edu /catalyst/archive/1998/co4-3therapeutic.htm (811 words)

	The Watchman Expositor: Therapeutic Touch Profile
		Therapeutic Touch (TT) is one of the most visible, popular and controversial nontraditional healing techniques practiced by nurses and taught in schools of nursing throughout the United States.
		Therapeutic Touch is based on the assumption that the physical body is surrounded by an aura (energy not visible to normal vision) and is penetrated and kept alive by a universal energy called prana (a Sanskrit word meaning vital force) that flows through the body and is transformed by chakras or nonphysical vortices.
		Krieger encourages students of Therapeutic Touch to tap into their unconscious by Jungian types of dream interpretation, the drawing and visualization of mandalas, and divination by means of consulting the I Ching (Therapeutic Touch, p.
	www.watchman.org /profile/touchpro.htm (1771 words)

	Therapeutic Touch
		Therapeutic touch is a form of healing that uses a practice called "laying on of hands" to correct or balance energy fields.
		Therapeutic touch is based on the theory that the body, mind, and emotions form a complex energy field.
		Therapeutic touch may also worsen fevers and active inflammation; therefore, it is best not to obtain therapeutic touch when you have either a fever or active inflammation (such as an acutely swollen joint from arthritis).
	www.umm.edu /altmed/ConsModalities/TherapeuticTouchcm.html (1639 words)

	therapeutic touch
		Therapeutic touch (TT) is a type of energy medicine whereby the therapist moves his or her hands over the patient’s “energy field,” allegedly directing the flow of chi or prana so the patient can heal.
		A grant proposal to study therapeutic touch on burn victims asserts: “Quantum theory states that all of reality is made up of energy fields and that over 99% of the universe is simply space.” Another defender claims
		In practicing Therapeutic Touch, one attempts to influence this energy imbalance towards health to restore the integrity of this field.
	www.skepdic.com /tt.html (1316 words)

	Therapies: Theraputic Touch
		Therapeutic touch is a new-age, energy-healing system that is gaining prominence in American medical facilities and hospitals due to its astounding ability to heal people by the manipulation of energy fields, emotions and feelings.
		Therapeutic touch was developed by Dolores Krieger, Ph.D., R.N., Professor Emeritus at New York University, and Dora Kunz, a healer.
		Therapeutic touch abides by the energy laws found in gemstone/chakra therapy: a belief in the seven chakras of the body and the ongoing flow of energy from one energy center to another.
	library.thinkquest.org /24206/theraputic-touch.html (788 words)

	Phenomenology and Therapeutic Touch
		Therapeutic Touch conveys the flow of chi or prana (life energy field) in a medicinal and/or sustaining manner as to enact curative result to the individual.
		When phenomenology is recognized and conjoined with therapeutic touch, gentle touch, verbal dialogue, active listening, the entire Gestalt Process, imagery, metaphor, movement, and humor to invite the body into the healing process it is total body health and wellness in initiation.
		Touch is often restrictive, or even viewed as inappropriate, yet we know that energy healers massage even the air just a few inches above the surface of the body to relieve and cure individual's in their charge.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/new_age_perspectives/117933 (423 words)

	WES Associates Therapeutic Touch
		Therapeutic Touch (TT) is a contemporary interpretation of several ancient healing practices developed by Dolores Krieger PhD., RN., (Professor of Nursing at New York University) and her mentor Dora Kunz in the early 1970's.
		Therapeutic Touch is based on the conscious use of your hands to direct or modulate human energies for therapeutic purposes.
		Therapeutic Touch is a non-invasive therapy used to elicit the relaxation response, reduce pain, accelerate the healing process and decrease response to stress.
	home.earthlink.net /~wesehs/therapeutictouch.htm (350 words)

	Therapeutic touch Encyclopedia of Medicine - Find Articles
		Therapeutic touch is a method that claims to assist the natural healing process by redirecting and rebalancing the energy fields within the body.
		Therapeutic touch can be regarded as a modern variation of the ancient "laying-on of hands." Stories of the use of touch as a healing method can be found in the Bible, in Greek mythology and Eastern philosophy, in Native American myths, and in the "royal touch" of the kings in medieval Europe.
		Trained practitioners of therapeutic touch claim to be able to tune into or "feel" this energy field with their hands, and can sense when the flow is congested or disordered.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g2601/is_0013/ai_2601001343 (803 words)

	Therapeutic Touch
		Therapeutic Touch is a process of energy exchange whereby the practioner uses their hands to facilitate healing.
		Therapeutic Touch was developed in 1972 by Dolores Krieger, PhD, RN and Dora Van Gelder Kunz, a natural healer.
		Another underlying assumption in Therapeutic Touch is the body has the innate capacity to heal and TT accelerates and assists with this process.
	www.cancerlynx.com /touch.html (385 words)

	InteliHealth:
		Therapeutic touch is a modern adaptation of several religious and secular healing traditions and is most commonly used in nursing practice for a wide range of health conditions.
		Therapeutic touch is taught as a secular approach with no religious connotations, although its core concept of "life energy" or "life force" has sometimes been compared with spiritual rather than scientific principles.
		Therapeutic touch is believed to be safe in most individuals and does not involve direct physical contact between practitioner and patient.
	www.intelihealth.com /IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/8513/34968/358873.html?d=dmtContent (2037 words)

	Therapeutic Touch - Crystalinks
		Therapeutic touch (TT) is a mostly secular variant of faith healing, started by Dolores Krieger in the early 1970s.
		In fact, in repeated trials, none of them were able to correctly identify the location of her hand at a rate better than the 50-50 chance that random guessing would give them.
		Therapeutic Touch works at a strictly psychological or "placebo" level: if the patient believes that the practitioner can help him/her calm down, then the patient will become more tranquil.
	www.crystalinks.com /therapeutic_touch.html (370 words)

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		Therapeutic Touch, an intervention practiced by thousands of nurses worldwide, is being promoted by some as a unique contribution to the new "science of healing." Others see it as nothing more than a timeworn technique rooted in a mystical mix of Eastern/occult philosophies.
		Therapeutic Touch is described in the literature as a derivative of the laying-on of hands, or as an ancient mode of healing recaptured and revised.
		She urges students of Therapeutic Touch to tap into their subconscious by a variety of methods that include dream interpretation, the drawing of mandalas, and divination by means of the I Ching.
	www.equip.org /free/DN105.htm (6800 words)

	Therapeutic Touch
		The purpose of therapeutic touch, then, is to remove the irregularities of the energy field which cause dis-ease, both as a preventative mechanism and as a treatment for manifested illness.
		Most scientists who are opposed to therapeutic touch techniques claim that therapeutic touch works only by virtue of the placebo effect, combined with a feeling of closeness with another human being and the freedom to speak to an indivdual whom they feel is a qualified listener.
		Therapeutic touch practitioners are at the very least a combination of psychotherapist and clergyman; they allow their subjects to speak to them under confidence while simultaneously providing their subjects with the belief that they are touching something greater than themselves.
	www.wesleyan.edu /synthesis/FRIDAY/frifinal/artdm.htm (4116 words)

	CIMER - Energy - Therapeutic Touch - M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
		Therapeutic Touch is a specific therapy based upon perceptions of individual energy fields that may have become unbalanced due to illness.
		However, Therapeutic Touch sessions have been associated with reduced pre-operative anxiety, improved mean well-being scores and generally perceived benefits among patients with cancer in three small randomized trials, one of which was partially blinded.
		Dolores Krieger, RN, the founder of Therapeutic Touch, cautioned practitioners to avoid overloading energy fields by limiting sessions to two to three minutes for children, the elderly, those with head injuries and others who are severely debilitated.
	www.mdanderson.org /departments/cimer/display.cfm?id=dabc43c8-2d02-46b6-a15a219cac6ea701&method=displayfull&pn=6eb86a59-ebd9-11d4-810100508b603a14 (364 words)

	Therapeutic Touch \| Therapeutic Touch Practitioners
		Therapeutic Touch is a contemporary interpretation of several ancient healing practices.
		Healing Touch is purported to be a biofield therapy that encompasses a group of non-invasive techniques that utilize the hands to clear, energize and balance the human and environmantal energy fields.
		Healing Touch is a nursing intervention that may be used to restore, energize and rebalance an energy field disturbance.
	www.alternativesforhealing.com /therapeutic_touch.htm (710 words)

	Therapeutic Touch (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Therapeutic touch is usually employed as a supplement to, rather than a replacement for, standard medical therapies.
		Therapeutic touch was developed in the early 1970s by Dolores Krieger, PhD, RN, a professor of nursing at New York University, and Dora Kunz, a "natural healer." Krieger and Kunz first taught the technique to Krieger's graduate nursing students, and it remains primarily a nursing intervention today.
		They add that therapeutic touch is not simply a mechanical manipulation of energy fields, but an act of compassion that requires personal interaction between patient and therapist.
	www.healthyroads.com /mylibrary/data/pdr/htm/200480.asp?HP=& (1338 words)

	Therapeutic Touch
		Stephen Barrett, M.D. Therapeutic touch is a method in which the hands are used to "direct human energies to help or heal someone who is ill." Proponents claim that the patient's "energy field" can be detected and intentionally manipulated by the therapist.
		Therapeutic Touch was conceived in the early 1970s by Dolores Krieger, Ph.D., R.N., a faculty member at New York University's Division of Nursing.
		"Non-contact therapeutic touch" is done the same way, except that the "healer's" hands are held a few inches away from the body.
	www.quackwatch.org /01QuackeryRelatedTopics/tt.html (0 words)

	ACS :: Therapeutic Touch
		Therapeutic Touch (TT) is a technique in which the hands are used to direct human energy for healing purposes.
		Therapeutic touch is similar to the "laying on of hands" practiced by some religious sects as a means of transferring healing energy from the minister to the believer (see Faith Healing, Qigong, and Reiki).
		Effects of dialogue and Therapeutic Touch on preoperative and postoperative experiences of breast cancer surgery: an exploratory study.
	www.cancer.org /docroot/ETO/content/ETO_5_3X_Therapeutic_Touch.asp (1259 words)

	CNN - Fourth-grade science project casts doubt on 'therapeutic touch' - April 1, 1998
		Therapeutic touch has been used to treat problems ranging from burns to cancer.
		Dolores Krieger, professor emeritus of nursing science at New York University and co-founder of therapeutic touch in 1972, scoffed at Emily's findings and said she was "astounded" JAMA published the study.
		Patricia W. Abrams, 59, said therapeutic touch saved her life 17 years ago after conventional doctors had given up on treating her for agnogenic myloid fibrosis, a fatal, incurable blood disorder.
	cnn.com /HEALTH/9804/01/therapeutic.touch/index.html (1022 words)

	Therapeutic Touch (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Therapeutic Touch is a new name for healing by energy field manipulation or "laying on of hands." This method of providing comfort and support is being taught in Nursing and Medical school curricula throughout the U.S. as an adjunct to traditional Western medicine.
		The main functions of Therapeutic Touch are relaxation and pain reduction, which allow the patient to take a more active part in their own healing.
		Therapeutic Touch is presented in a context of Western medicine and thus has no specific spiritual orientation.
	www.conjure.com /TRINE/touch.html (2535 words)

	Therapeutic touch Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Therapeutic touch, or TT is a noninvasive method of healing that was derived from an ancient laying on of hands technique.
		Nurses use therapeutic touch in operating rooms to relax patients before surgery and in recovery rooms on postoperative patients to help speed the healing process.
		Therapeutic touch is performed in many different locations, including healing centers, delivery rooms, hospitals, hospice settings, accident scenes, homes, and schools.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g2603/is_0001/ai_2603000124 (904 words)

	Therapeutic Touch
		In the chapter a Touch of Green, we talked about autistic children actively rejecting green, an earthly warming color that they are in dire need of.
		The essence of an autistic child’s suffering as beings is seen in the pain of separation that cuts into their much needed bond of total love and this is often expressed in a rejection of their deep need for touch.
		Therapeutic Healing Touch is a basic requirement for all families participating in our studies.
	www.detoxchelationclinic.com /therapeutic_touch.shtml (417 words)

	Therapeutic Touch in Omaha - Heartland Healing Center
		A touch expresses, a touch connects, a touch closes distance and in an Instant reminds us that we are not separate.
		Touch quite truly lowers the resistance of energy between two bodies and when that energy is linked, the potential is raised.
		Therapeutic Touch and, of course, other healing practices, (some would say ALL healing practices,) uses the knowledge that illness or dis-ease is the result of the body's energy field becoming unbalanced.
	www.heartlandhealing.com /pages/archive/therapeutic_touch/index.html (1660 words)

	Therapeutic Touch--Rocky Mountain Skeptics (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Therapeutic Touch (TT), sometimes called "Healing Touch" is based on "laying on of hands" mixed with Eastern mysticism.
		While Therapeutic Touch (TT) was only one of many questionable courses stated as a concern it soon became the central focus of the battle to follow.
		Meanwhile, Therapeutic Touch continues to be taught in many Nursing Schools and practiced in many mainstream hospitals, even though scientific evidence for its effectiveness has not been demonstrated.
	www.rationalmagic.com /RMS/rms-tt1.htm (743 words)

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