Therapeutic Touch
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Techniques of therapeutic communication I: Active Listening, Sharing Observations, Validation, and Using Touch
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2023
The history of therapeutic communication can be traced back to Florence Nightingale, who emphasized the importance of developing trusting relationships with patients. She taught that the presence of nurses with patients results in therapeutic healing. Therapeutic communication is not the same as social interaction. Social interaction has no goal or purpose and consists of casual information sharing, whereas therapeutic communication has a plan or purpose for the conversation. Therapeutic...
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Responses to Gravity and Touch
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2020
Gravitropism: Plant Responses to Gravity Higher plants sense gravity using statocytes, cells found near the vascular tissue in shoots, and in the root cap columella in roots. Statocytes contain starch-filled organelles called statoliths. The statoliths settle, or sediment, at the bottom of the statocyte in the direction of gravity. Statolith sedimentation triggers a signaling cascade, resulting in the asymmetrical distribution of the plant hormone auxin across root and shoot tips. This...
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Touch Habituation Assay: A Method to Study Non-Associative Learning in C. elegans
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2023
This video introduces the touch habituation assay, a C. elegans behavioral method of assessing mechanosensation and quantifying time to habituation.
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Therapeutic Index
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2025
The therapeutic index of a drug is a key parameter in pharmacology that quantifies the relative safety of a drug by calculating the ratio between the dose that causes toxicity in half the population (50%) to the dose that proves to be effective for half the population (50%). It provides a spectrum of doses for a particular drug ranging from effective to potentially toxic. To illustrate, consider an anticoagulant agent like warfarin. It possesses a narrow window within its therapeutic index to...
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Laparoscopic Pancreatoduodenectomy for Pancreatic Cancer Using In-Situ No-Touch Isolation Technique
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2022
No-Touch isolation procedures might prevent the dissemination of cancer cells from the primary tumor. However, these techniques are not widely accepted in laparoscopic pancreatoduodenectomy (LPD) by now. We herein present in-situ No-Touch isolation LPD with partial resection and reconstruction of the superior mesenteric vein (SMV) for pancreatic cancer after neoadjuvant therapy.
FAQs
Practitioners describe the biofield as something that can be assessed and rebalanced through focused attention and hand movements. This explanation provides the conceptual basis for the practice, but conventional biomedical research has not established that such an energy-based mechanism operates. Consequently, reported benefits should be interpreted separately from claims about how the practice supposedly works.
Focused attention and hand movements are intended to support relaxation and address a perceived imbalance, rather than serve as a biomedical treatment mechanism established by research. This distinction matters clinically: a person may report improved well-being, while the proposed biofield explanation remains unconfirmed and should not be treated as settled scientific evidence.
Therapeutic Touch is positioned as a complementary practice, meaning it may accompany standard care rather than replace evidence-based treatment. Its proposed energy-based mechanism has not been established by conventional biomedical research, so it should not be used as a substitute for clinically supported therapies. This distinction helps preserve appropriate treatment while considering possible supportive effects.
The approach centers on a practitioner’s focused attention and hand movements on or just above the body. The process is framed around assessing and rebalancing a person’s biofield, while the practical goal may be relaxation or support for well-being. The available description does not establish a standardized biomedical protocol for how these actions must be performed.
It may be offered as an adjunct when stress, anxiety, discomfort, or a perceived imbalance is part of a person’s experience. In that role, the practice is intended to support well-being alongside standard care, not address these concerns as a replacement for medical treatment. Its suitability should be considered in light of mixed research findings.
Evaluation should give careful attention to patient-reported outcomes, because perceived relaxation, anxiety, discomfort, or imbalance may differ from evidence for a specific biological mechanism. Researchers should also consider practitioner training and whether the practice remains adjunctive. Mixed findings make cautious interpretation important, particularly when judging well-being claims in clinical settings.