The therapeutic touch is a nursing technique that is based on a belief but thought to have a scientific foundation. Medical practitioners claim to treat vast diseases by maneuvering the human energy field that is perceived to be above the skin of the patient. This paper therefore gives the results of the study that was conducted to find the truth behind the legitimacy of this medication technique.
In order to find out the clear truth about the therapeutic touch medication process, the study sampled twenty one practitioners with professional experience of twenty seven years. These experienced Therapeutic Touch nurses were, under blinded conditions requested to determine which of their hands was nigh to the hand of the investigator. To test the investigator’s hand, the practitioners had to toss a coin to a position they felt they had felt the human energy field. This experiment was conducted among fourteen practitioners ten times and twenty times to the seven who were remaining. The practitioners were then supposed to tell on whether the unseen hand of the investigator moved around their left or right hand to prove therapeutic touch medication.
This study found out that the experts only detected the hands in one hundred an twenty three trails out of two hundred trials made thus experience played a least role at this experiment. The conclusion of this study found therapeutic touch a baseless method of medication and that if it was legitimate, then the sampled experts could have demonstrated it in this experiment. According to this study, failure of the therapeutic touch practitioners to demonstrate their expertise in the controversial field rendered the whole practice illegal and a hoax which should be discontinued.
Background
The advocates for therapeutic touch say more than a hundred thousand people including forty three Medicare practitioners across the globe are trained in that field. A half a million members of Order of Nurses QUBEC endorsed therapeutic touch in 1987. On the other hand, the National League for Nurses which is the authorizing body distanced itself on claims that that it was in agreement with therapeutically practice though it was thought to give a hand in terms of journalizing and videotaping the practice.
The therapeutic touch mode of treatment was invented by Dolores Krieger PhD RN holder of nursing division New York University. Krieger said that there is an interaction of energy flow from an individual and the environment. He stated that this energy flow could be manipulated in the case of an ill person by a health person and the result would be healing. This idea got a support when Anton Mesmer in his human magnetism concept stated that diseases are caused by the obstacles which prevented a free interaction between the flow of energy from the environment and a person. Mesmer asserted that the obstacles could be removed from the energy field flow and then a person the patient received healing. Another key concept that the pioneers of therapeutic touch demonstrate give is that success of the method depend on the patient’s own will to be healed.
Opinion
After reviewing various health sources and expertise analysis of the therapeutic touch, I strongly disagree with the practice. This study provides a clear finding that this a fraudulent method of aimed at playing around with desperate people’s psychology since the scientific test of the method failed terribly as explained in this research. I enjoin many sober minds across the globe who terms the continued practice as intended injustice to the innocent patients.
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