Therapeutic touch for anxiety disorders

Effects of Viktor Philippi’s Bioenergetic Meditation on Anxiety, Burnout, and Depression: An Analysis of Four Feasibility Studies

“…Furthermore, placebo treatment is also hard to realize for an intervention which depends on physical contact with the therapist and on the application of acquired techniques and skills by the therapist. Accordingly, randomized controlled trials of methods involving energy and/or information transmission through physical contact, such as Reiki or therapeutic touch, are scarce [27,28]. Nevertheless, these other methods could principally serve as comparison treatments in order to detect any specific effects of BM.…”

Effects of Viktor Philippi’s Bioenergetic Meditation on Anxiety, Burnout, and Depression: An Analysis of Four Feasibility Studies

“…Furthermore, placebo treatment is also hard to realize for an intervention which depends on physical contact with the therapist and on the application of acquired techniques and skills by the therapist. Accordingly, randomized controlled trials of methods involving energy and/or information transmission through physical contact, such as Reiki or therapeutic touch, are scarce [27,28]. Nevertheless, these other methods could principally serve as comparison treatments in order to detect any specific effects of BM.…”

A rapid evidence assessment of recent therapeutic touch research

“…Bibliographic sources from CINAHL, PubMed, MEDLINE, Cochrane Library databases, Web of Science, PsychINFO and Google Scholar were screened between January 2009-March 2020 for studies exploring TT therapies as an intervention in any clinical condition. The use of the previous decade was selected as a practical REA limitation to cover recent work published after the most recent independent reviews of TT in general use (Ernst, 2003;O'Mathúna, 2000;Robinson et al, 2007). While Google Scholar might yield grey or unreliable literature, it was included in order to allow the literature search to be as comprehensive as possible.…”

A one-day education in soft tissue massage: Experiences and opinions as evaluated by nursing staff in palliative care

“…Patients and spouses seek to an increasing extent non pharmacological alternatives in the search for enhanced quality of life and existential well-being (Sims, 1986;Meek, 1993;Billhult & Dahlberg, 2001;Fellowes et al, 2006). In previous studies positive effects of STM have been shown on symptoms such as anxiety (Sims, 1986;Cassileth & Vickers, 2004;Deng and Cassileth, 2005;Fellowes et al, 2006;Robinson et al, 2007), pain (Grealish et al, 2000;Cassileth & Vickers, 2004;Calenda, 2006;Fellowes et al, 2006), and nausea (Grealish et al, 2000;Cassileth & Vickers, 2004;Fellowes et al, 2006). Studies also suggest better bowel function (Preece, 2002), a decrease in fatigue (Cassileth & Vickers, 2004), and improved sleep (Smith et al, 2002).…”

Effects of Viktor Philippi’s Bioenergetic Meditation on Anxiety, Burnout, and Depression: An Analysis of Four Feasibility Studies

“…Furthermore, placebo treatment is also hard to realize for an intervention which depends on physical contact with the therapist and on the application of acquired techniques and skills by the therapist. Accordingly, randomized controlled trials of methods involving energy and/or information transmission through physical contact, such as Reiki or therapeutic touch, are scarce [27,28]. Nevertheless, these other methods could principally serve as comparison treatments in order to detect any specific effects of BM.…”

A rapid evidence assessment of recent therapeutic touch research

“…Bibliographic sources from CINAHL, PubMed, MEDLINE, Cochrane Library databases, Web of Science, PsychINFO and Google Scholar were screened between January 2009-March 2020 for studies exploring TT therapies as an intervention in any clinical condition. The use of the previous decade was selected as a practical REA limitation to cover recent work published after the most recent independent reviews of TT in general use (Ernst, 2003;O'Mathúna, 2000;Robinson et al, 2007). While Google Scholar might yield grey or unreliable literature, it was included in order to allow the literature search to be as comprehensive as possible.…”

A one-day education in soft tissue massage: Experiences and opinions as evaluated by nursing staff in palliative care

“…Patients and spouses seek to an increasing extent non pharmacological alternatives in the search for enhanced quality of life and existential well-being (Sims, 1986;Meek, 1993;Billhult & Dahlberg, 2001;Fellowes et al, 2006). In previous studies positive effects of STM have been shown on symptoms such as anxiety (Sims, 1986;Cassileth & Vickers, 2004;Deng and Cassileth, 2005;Fellowes et al, 2006;Robinson et al, 2007), pain (Grealish et al, 2000;Cassileth & Vickers, 2004;Calenda, 2006;Fellowes et al, 2006), and nausea (Grealish et al, 2000;Cassileth & Vickers, 2004;Fellowes et al, 2006). Studies also suggest better bowel function (Preece, 2002), a decrease in fatigue (Cassileth & Vickers, 2004), and improved sleep (Smith et al, 2002).…”

Effects of Viktor Philippi’s Bioenergetic Meditation on Anxiety, Burnout, and Depression: An Analysis of Four Feasibility Studies

“…Furthermore, placebo treatment is also hard to realize for an intervention which depends on physical contact with the therapist and on the application of acquired techniques and skills by the therapist. Accordingly, randomized controlled trials of methods involving energy and/or information transmission through physical contact, such as Reiki or therapeutic touch, are scarce [27,28]. Nevertheless, these other methods could principally serve as comparison treatments in order to detect any specific effects of BM.…”

A rapid evidence assessment of recent therapeutic touch research

“…Bibliographic sources from CINAHL, PubMed, MEDLINE, Cochrane Library databases, Web of Science, PsychINFO and Google Scholar were screened between January 2009-March 2020 for studies exploring TT therapies as an intervention in any clinical condition. The use of the previous decade was selected as a practical REA limitation to cover recent work published after the most recent independent reviews of TT in general use (Ernst, 2003;O'Mathúna, 2000;Robinson et al, 2007). While Google Scholar might yield grey or unreliable literature, it was included in order to allow the literature search to be as comprehensive as possible.…”

A one-day education in soft tissue massage: Experiences and opinions as evaluated by nursing staff in palliative care

“…Patients and spouses seek to an increasing extent non pharmacological alternatives in the search for enhanced quality of life and existential well-being (Sims, 1986;Meek, 1993;Billhult & Dahlberg, 2001;Fellowes et al, 2006). In previous studies positive effects of STM have been shown on symptoms such as anxiety (Sims, 1986;Cassileth & Vickers, 2004;Deng and Cassileth, 2005;Fellowes et al, 2006;Robinson et al, 2007), pain (Grealish et al, 2000;Cassileth & Vickers, 2004;Calenda, 2006;Fellowes et al, 2006), and nausea (Grealish et al, 2000;Cassileth & Vickers, 2004;Fellowes et al, 2006). Studies also suggest better bowel function (Preece, 2002), a decrease in fatigue (Cassileth & Vickers, 2004), and improved sleep (Smith et al, 2002).…”