Touch the pain away: new research on therapeutic touch and persons with fibromyalgia syndrome.
This pilot study tested the effectiveness of 6 therapeutic touch treatments on the experience of pain and quality of life for persons with fibromyalgia syndrome. Its findings support that subjects who received therapeutic touch had a statistically significant decrease in pain for each pretherapeutic to posttherapeutic touch treatment, as well as significant improvement in quality of life from pre-first to pre-sixth treatment. Therapeutic touch may be an effective treatment for relieving pain and improving quality of life in this specific population of persons with fibromyalgia syndrome.
Denison
Barbara
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Wichita State University and the Kansas Heart Hospital, Wichita, KS, USA. bdenison@sbcusa.com
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D005356:Fibromyalgia / Q000451:nursing*; D018939:Holistic Nursing / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D010146:Pain / Q000451:nursing*; D010147:Pain Measurement; D017060:Patient Satisfaction / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011788:Quality of Life; D012107:Research Design; D019124:Therapeutic Touch / Q000379:methods / Q000451:nursing; D013997:Time Factors; D016896:Treatment Outcome