Five Steps In The Therapeutic Touch Method

Therapeutic touch was founded by Dolores Krieger RN and Dora Kunz (natural healer), it emerged in the early in the 1970s. Therapeutic touch is a contemporary interpretation of several ancient healing practices and its purpose is to facilitate healing and relieve the patient from any pain they are having. Therapeutic Touch also has a great influence in religious faith healing. This healing technique does not involve any type of contact and it is a widely used nursing practice also considered a nursing intervention. There are 100,000 people around the world are trained in therapeutic touch and that includes 40,000 health care professionals. Therapeutic touch is also taught in more than 100 colleges in seventy-five countries. When therapeutic touch was founded it was a contact technique which then evolved into a no contact technique. Its main objective is to balance out the human

There is a total of five steps in the Therapeutic Touch technique. The first step is called centering, which is meditation this is used to make sure that the patient is calm. The second step is assessment, which is where the practitioner moves their hands 2-4 inches over the patient to detect where the patient has an imbalance of energy. Third step is unruffling it’s also called intervention, which is when the practitioner is trying clear the energy flow so it can be symmetric. The forth step is balancing or rebalancing energy, this is when energy is being redirected to where it needs to be. The final step is called evaluation/closure, which is when the practitioner decides when they’re finished, but they usually repeat this process 2-3 times. Usually this process does not involve any type of contact unless the practitioner uses the old form of Therapeutic