title: The Effects of Yoga, Massage, and Reiki on Patient Well-Being at a Cancer Resource Center.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Cancer resource centers offer patients a variety of therapeutic services. However, patients with cancer and cancer healthcare practitioners may not fully understand the specific objectives and benefits of each service. This research offers guidance to cancer healthcare practitioners on how they can best direct patients to partake in specific integrative therapies, depending on their expressed needs.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This article investigates the effects of yoga, massage, and Reiki services administered in a cancer resource center on patients' sense of personal well-being. The results show how program directors at a cancer resource center can customize therapies to meet the needs of patients' well-being.
  
  
  METHODS
  The experimental design measured whether engaging in yoga, massage, or Reiki services affects the self-perceived well-being of 150 patients at a cancer resource center at two times.
  
  
  RESULTS
  All three services helped decrease stress and anxiety, improve mood, and enhance cancer center patrons' perceived overall health and quality of life in a similar manner. Reiki reduced the pain of patients with cancer to a greater extent than either massage or yoga.
authors.affiliation: Northern Illinois University.
authors.forename: Mark S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Rosenbaum
authors.affiliation: Reiki Share Project.
authors.forename: Jane
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Velde
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001007:Anxiety / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008405:Massage; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D019124:Therapeutic Touch; D015013:Yoga
keywords: Reiki; cancer resource centers; integrative cancer therapies; massage therapy; therapeutic touch; yoga