Cancer and Healing Touch

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Healing Touch energy work is a wonderful addition to conventional cancer care. Going through cancer diagnosis and treatment is a highly stressful experience. Medical care is, of course, necessary but some of us want to integrate other holistic forms of care alongside the medical treatments to put ourselves in the best condition to activate our innate healing capacity. 

A multifactor approach to handling cancer is described in the books Radical Remission and Radical Hope by Dr. Kelly Turner. She studied people who beat the odds and found that there are ten factors these "cancer thrivers" implemented to return to health. Healing Touch is one way to implement several of these factors such as intuition, spirituality, empowerment and releasing suppressed emotions.

Professionals in mainstream healthcare have taken notice of the benefits of Healing Touch and want to make sure this therapy is available to their patients. Legitimate, journal-worthy experiments have been conducted over the last 15 years which document measurable benefits for patients who add HT to their treatment plan. Many hospitals now have Healing Touch practitioners on staff to give their patients an integrative plan of care. Read below for more details about the science-backed evidence for HT.

Healing Touch in conjunction with chemoradiation in the treatment of cervical cancer:  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3907587/

Analysis of six articles that show positive effects of TT (similar to Healing Touch) on pain, nausea, anxiety, and fatigue: 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4860206/

Preservation of immune function in cervical cancer patients during chemoradiation paired with Healing Touch:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20600809/

Pain improvement in breast cancer patients with Healing Touch:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33654502/

Healing Touch reduced anxiety in women undergoing breast biopsy

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25976090/

Recovering from surgery is often part of cancer treatment. Here are some articles about how Healing Touch has helped with recovery from surgery. Although the patients in these articles do not have cancer, the results demonstrate how Healing Touch increases several aspects of surgical healing.

Healing Touch with knee replacement surgery, 2021:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33545940/

Healing Touch with bilateral knee arthroplasty, 2012:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22278643/

Healing Touch and postsurgical results, 2016:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26453532/

Healing Touch and bariatric surgical patients, 2015:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25797686/

Healing Touch and coronary artery bypass surgery, 2008:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18616066/

The following links show various hospitals and medical centers that use Healing Touch on site.

https://www.bch.org/our-services/cancer/support-integrative-therapies/healing-touch/

https://www.wbaltv.com/article/healing-touch-therapy-cancer-treatment/41412658

https://stanfordhealthcare.org/events/healing-touch.html

https://lovelacecancercenter.com/blog/lovelace-cancer-center-offers-energy-based-approach-health-and-healing

Healing Touch can be scheduled between radiation or chemotherapy appointments to energetically support the healing effects and may reduce side effects. It is also a wonderful support after these treatments are completed to encourage recovery and rebuilding on all levels: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.

Healing Touch is beneficial both before and after surgery. It has been shown in studies to decrease anxiety, decrease pain, and shorten hospital stays.

Your first Healing Touch appointment will be 75 minutes to give us time to discuss your history and goals. All subsequent appointments are about 50 minutes. Please don't hesitate to contact us for more information.