title: Healing pathways through energy work in the perianesthesia care setting.
abstract: Energy-medicine therapy such as healing touch is a powerful way to promote relaxation and enhance the healing process. Healing touch is a sacred healing art and a way of caring in which practitioners use their hands as channels to assess and balance the energy field that encircles the body in order to promote the innate ability to heal. A collection of energy-based treatment modalities are used to assess and treat the human energy system. The energy system that is life is influenced by healing touch, which is used extensively in the nursing profession. This energy-medicine therapy is used in all areas of nursing. This article discusses the concepts of healing touch, the human energy field, and applications of healing touch in professional practice in the perianesthesia setting.
authors.affiliation: Post-Anesthesia Care Unit, Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth, VA 23708, USA.
authors.forename: C E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: King
mesh_terms: D000758:Anesthesia / Q000451:nursing*; D006801:Humans; D019990:Perioperative Care; D016528:Postanesthesia Nursing; D019413:Qi; D019124:Therapeutic Touch / Q000379:methods*