Therapeutic touch in primary care.
Therapeutic Touch (TT) is an intervention that may be used in a variety of settings to help patients in their healing processes. This article describes the basic assumptions and framework from which this technique has developed. It includes an explanation of how to perform the technique, resources for study, and more information about TT and related alternative modalities. The author provides descriptions of actual patient interventions from her practice using TT.
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D000529:Complementary Therapies; D006801:Humans; D012064:Relaxation Therapy; D014110:Touch