Touch Therapy: Touch Therapy

Touch Therapy: Touch Therapy by Field PhD, Tiffany. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780443057915.

Touch Therapy focuses on recent research relating to the importance of touch and its application in healthcare, especially when involving physical contact with patients. Particular focus is placed on touch therapy in promoting wellness and healing. Touch therapy has particular relevance with regards to stress reduction, pain relief, growth and development, immune function and auto-immune disorders. Thorough and highly readable round-up of recent research relating to the importance of touch. Of practical help and interest to healthcare professionals whose work involves physical contact with patients. Author is a leading authority internationally, and the work of the Touch Research Institutes is high profile. Focuses on key and common conditions pain, stress, immune disorders through key life stages.