What is Healing Touch?
Healing Touch is a Complementary Alternative Medicine (CAM). It is an energy-based therapeutic approach to healing. A Healing Touch Practitioner uses his or her hands to detect imbalances in the energy system in the body and restore harmony and balance in the energy field (also called biofield) to help the person to self-healing; thus affecting the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health.
The claims below has been documented in the Healing Touch Program at least one research study:
* Reduction in pain level or pain relief
* Decreased use of pain medication post-operatively
* Improve mobility after surgery and accelerate post-operative recovery.
* Decrease depression
* Decrease anxiety
* Symptom relief during or after chemotherapy
* Decrease agitation in those with dementia
* Development or deepening of a spiritual connection
* Improved quality of life
* Improved symptoms in auto-immune disorder
* Immune system strengthening and support
* Support for withdrawal from substance abuse
* Decrease negative effects of trauma/chronic pain/and post traumatic stress
