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May/June 2004 - Volume 18 - Issue 3 - p 142-150
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Touch the Pain Away: New Research on Therapeutic Touch and Persons With Fibromyalgia Syndrome

Denison, Barbara MSN, ARNP, HNC, QTTT/P

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Abstract

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.

© 2004 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.

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