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Utilization Of Therapeutic Touch In Clients Diagnosed With Chronic Pain, Rosa Matonti
Utilization Of Therapeutic Touch In Clients Diagnosed With Chronic Pain, Rosa Matonti
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
Chronic pain is one of the most pervasive and expensive health care problems in society today. Fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis are chronic disease states which currently have no cure. A common complaint among these patients is constant and unremitting pain, which often worsens with inactivity. At this time treatment for both disease processes is essentially palliative, supportive and aimed at symptom relief; A quasi experimental design was used to determine if there were any significant differences in pain perception between persons with FM or RA receiving therapeutic touch (TT) and a placebo treatment (PT). Sixty-one subjects served as their own …