Martinez-Pleinis is a volunteer for Healing Hands, Healing Hearts, a nonprofit organization that brings touch therapy to those with critical or terminal illnesses.

Though the benefits of massage/touch therapy promote healthy outcomes, there is a cautionary nature in offering this activity to all individuals with Alzheimer’s disease.

Healing Touch is an energy-based therapy that we all have the ability to use. It is basically an electrical field (aura) that is distributed throughout the body. It can be used by itself or in ...

Touch therapy is important where nurses can be directly near patients and provide alternative nursing actions to overcome physical complaints due to the diseases’ responses.

Award winning therapist, Paul Emery, talks about the benefits of touch therapy, tapping and QEPR. He also shares an easy guide for doing your own at-home touch therapy.

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.

A central Pennsylvania psychologist has been jailed on charges that “touching therapy” he used on two female patients really amounted to sexual abuse, for which he fraudulently billed ...

Touching tarantulas: Overcoming phobias with brief therapy Date: May 21, 2012 Source: Northwestern University Summary: A brief therapy session for adults with a lifelong debilitating spider phobia ...

Aging is a natural process, but the symptoms that accompany hormonal changes don't have to dictate your quality of life. For many adults in Waco and throughout Central Texas, hormone ...

Are massage or touch therapies beneficial to individuals with Alzheimer’s disease? Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo once said, “To touch is to give life.” Scientists and studies have ...