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Touch Therapy - Hardcover

Field, Tiffany

 
9780443057915: Touch Therapy

Synopsis

"Touch Therapy" focuses on recent research relating to the importance of touch and its application in healthcare, especially when involving physical contact with patients. Particular focus is placed on touch therapy in promoting wellness and healing. Touch therapy has particular relevance with regards to stress reduction, pain relief, growth and development, immune function and auto-immune disorders.

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Product Description

Touch therapy has relevance to stress reduction, pain relief, growth and development, immune function and auto-immune disorders. This book focuses on research relating to the importance of touch and its application in healthcare, especially when involving physical contact with patients; and on touch therapy in promoting wellness and healing.

From the Publisher

This is a unique resource for all touch therapists!
This book examines the research base of touch or massage therapy, and describes the practical application of these results in practice. Written by the Director of the world-renowned Touch Research Institutes in the USA, each chapter gives a clear and authoritative review of what is reliably known about the effects of touch in a variety of clinical conditions, especially in the areas of: *stress reduction; *pain reduction; *growth and development; *immune function; *auto-immune disorders. This book is a uniquely valuable and practical resource for all healthcare professionals whose work involves touch, especially massgae therapists, chiropractors, osteopaths, physical therapists and many complementary therapists.

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