Impact of healing touch with healing harp on inpatient acute care pain: a retrospective analysis.
This study examined the concomitant use of 2 complementary and alternative medicine modalities, Healing Harp and Healing Touch, to reduce pain, anxiety, and nausea in the postoperative patient population. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of using concomitant Healing Touch and Healing Harp to significantly reduce moderate to severe pain and anxiety in this patient population. Further research is warranted.
Integrative Services Department, Woodwinds Health Campus, Woodbury, Minnesota (Drs Lincoln and Nowak and Mss Schommer and Briggs); Musical Reflections Inc, Minneapolis, Minnesota (Ms Briggs); HealthEast Care System, Woodbury, Minnesota (Ms Fehrer), Quality Measurement Reporting, HealthEast Care System, Woodbury, Minnesota (Ms Wax).
Valerie
V
Lincoln
Emily Witrak
EW
Nowak
Barb
B
Schommer
Tami
T
Briggs
Amy
A
Fehrer
Gary
G
Wax
D005260:Female; D006694:Holistic Health; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients; D009147:Music Therapy; D059408:Pain Management / Q000379:methods*; D010147:Pain Measurement; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D019124:Therapeutic Touch