Touch the pain away: new research on therapeutic touch and persons with fibromyalgia syndrome

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2004-05
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Denison, Barbara
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Holistic nursing practice. 2004 May-Jun; 18(3): 142-51.

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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.

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