Therapeutic Touch is a healing practice based on the conscious use of the hands to
direct or modulate, for therapeutic purposes, selected nonphysical human energies that
activate the physical body.
There were four of scientific premises of Therapeu...
Therapeutic Touch is a healing practice based on the conscious use of the hands to
direct or modulate, for therapeutic purposes, selected nonphysical human energies that
activate the physical body.
There were four of scientific premises of Therapeutic Touch(Krieger,1993);
1. All the life sciences agree that, physically, a human being is an open energy system.
2. Anatomically, a human being is bilaterally symmetrical.
3. Illness is imbalance in an individual's energy field.
4. Human beings have natural abilities to transform and transcend their conditions
of living.
The process of Therapeutic Touch consists of four steps: centering, assessment,
unruffling, and transferring energy. There were several consistent and highly reliable
results of the Therapeutic Touch interaction: relaxation, pain reduction, accelerated
healing process, and alleviation of psychosomatic illness.
In nursing, the purpose of Therapeutic Touch was to restore order and harmony of
the energy pattern by intentional and specific interaction between the nurse’s energy
field and the energy field of the client.