Healing Touch – Dr. Weil’s Wellness Therapies. Healing Touch What is Healing Touch? Founded by registered nurse Janet Mentgen in 1989, Healing Touch (HT) is an “energetic therapy” believed to facilitate health, healing and well-being by restoring balance in the human energy field. Treatment is intended to affect an energetic space – sometimes termed a field or biofield – postulated … Read More
Scripps Doctors Give Touch Therapy A Big Hand
Scripps Doctors Give Touch Therapy A Big Hand Research Suggests It Speeds Healing, Reduces Anxiety POSTED: 6:58 pm PDT August 1, 2006 UPDATED: 7:28 pm PDT August 1, 2006 SAN DIEGO — Employees at Scripps Green Hospital are getting touchy with patients — and it’s getting good results. The hospital is now using certified healing touch therapists to give patients … Read More
Stable owner believes ‘holistic’ therapy helps animals
Stable owner believes ‘holistic’ therapy helps animals Monday, October 1, 2007 BY Benjamin Duer REPOSITORY STAFF WRITER A GOOD FEELING Travis, a former racing horse suffering from multiple tumors, underwent successful sound and vibration therapy using holistic treatments during a demonstration Sunday. A floppy lip, glazed eyes and droopy ears are positive signs of a relaxed patient, Sheri Antrude of … Read More
Healing touch therapy thrives despite skeptics
By Vivianne Rodrigues NEW YORK (Reuters) – It’s not traditional medicine but patients love it: an unconventional therapy called the healing touch that is gaining acceptance in some U.S. hospitals. The technique uses light touch and deep breathing to address energy imbalances, its advocates say. Though research on it is limited, the therapy is practiced at 30 U.S. hospitals and … Read More
Healing Touch: A Cost Effectiveness Study
Healing Touch: A Cost Effectiveness Study Mary Beth Lodge, RN, BSN, CHTP “A cost effectiveness study was conducted to assess the overall impact of the inclusion of energy medicine (Healing Touch) and imagery on utilization of benefits and medical costs. It was a thirteen-month study with 440 employees in a self-insured manufacturing company. Healing Touch was included as a benefit … Read More
Story by Phil Galewitz for USA Today Healing touch: A new patient outreach program
Healing touch: A new patient outreach program Healing touch practioners Karen Lynch and Paula Kobelt use the technique on Sheldon Smith at Grant Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio. POPULAR, BUT UNPROVEN Healing touch was developed by Janet Mentgen, a nurse who has used energy-based care in her practice in Colorado since 1980. Mentgen and some of her colleagues developed a … Read More