| Haptic medicine. | |
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PMID: 19745495 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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The paper introduces haptic medicine--healthcare based on loving touch for healing and preventing disease. We describe the effects of loving touch (a square inch of our skin has over 1000 nerves) on the body, brain and mind. We describe two web-based health education and media projects. The first, HYPERLINK "http://www.21stcenturymed.org" www.21stcenturymed.org is a place for health practitioners to start learning about touch and resources. The second project, Humans Without Borders, is a multi-lingual self help education website for everyday people. Teaching materials for these projects are based on our previous work with a form of haptic medicine known as psychophysiophilosophy with patients at Stanford Hospital, Kaiser Permanente and Lucille Packard Children's Hospital. We describe psychophysiophilosophy, relate motherly love to recent discoveries in neurosciences and give hints on ways to increase motherly love in each of us. We present a plan for moving into the future by re-introducing haptic medicine into our daily lives through self-help and as an adjunct for current physician practice. There is an exercise in self-help for the reader and an appendix of recent clinical research with profound benefits on the use of human touch for over 40 conditions. |
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Authors:
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Cindy Mason; Earl Mason |
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Publication Detail:
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Type: Journal Article |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Studies in health technology and informatics Volume: 149 ISSN: 0926-9630 ISO Abbreviation: Stud Health Technol Inform Publication Date: 2009 |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2009-09-11 Completed Date: 2010-01-21 Revised Date: - |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 9214582 Medline TA: Stud Health Technol Inform Country: Netherlands |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 368-85 Citation Subset: T |
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Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA. |
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Humans Internet Palpation* Therapeutics* |
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