Thread: Healing Touch helping our Military with PTSD
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Old 10-06-2012, 09:59 PM
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Default Healing Touch helping our Military with PTSD
I've posted before about Healing Touch and how it has helped me overcome my PCS. My easiest explanation for Healing Touch is it is just like acupuncture but without the needles. The idea is to remove congested or stagnant energy (chi or qi) to restore balance to the bodys energy field and help the body physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. It invovles placing the hands gently on or above the body and working with the bodies energy centers.

But i wanted to share this study that was just done because i know people like to have evidence of something working. When I started taking classes in Healing Touch last year, my first instructor Rauni King, told us about this study that she had just completed with a doctor from our hospital who also does Healing Touch, Mimi Guarneri MD.

They did it at Camp Peddleton in Southern California and the results were absolutely astounding. There were 123 participants, and the group that got Healing Touch had such amazing success overcoming their PTSD that after the study was over, they gave Healing Touch treatments to all the non-HT group and then they all got amazingly better!! It just got published last month in Military Medicine journal.

This is a really important study for our community of PCS and TBI because it shows that there are ways to help with our depression and side effects we suffer from. Here are links to the abstract and an article about it! Not to mention it helps with pain reduction and can help those of us who suffer from headaches.

Here in San Diego, every hospital has a Healing Touch nurse along with training our nurses how to do Healing Touch so we can help our patients heal. It is very widely accepted and their are programs popping up all over the country for Healing Touch in our hospitals, including Stanfords Healing Partners program for Breast Cancer patients. Check out the links below about the study and also the website for Healing Touch so you can find a practitioner in your area! Im more than happy to answer any questions you might have about this Energy therapy


http://www.ingentaconnect.com/conten...00009/art00016

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0924102500.htm

www.healingtouchinternational.org
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Suffered a TBI with PCS on April 25th 2011 from multiple blows to the head from falling, unconscious for 12 hours with no memory of event. Hit the back of my head, and above right eye. MRI and CT negative. Symptoms included constant headaches (migraine, pressure, tension, icepicks), dizziness, tinnitus, visual changes, photophobia, fatigue, "spacing out", word finding difficulties, depression, and emotional lability.
Began Healing in November 2011 after starting acupuncture and Healing Touch (a nurturing energy therapy that promotes relaxation and pain relief). I went back to work in February 2012. Ive been symptom free since July 2012. Very happy, positive, energetic and working out every day, doing yoga, and living a normal life again!
I also began taking Healing Touch classes in November 2011 and completed 5 Levels of Healing Touch Certificate Program that included a 1 year mentorship to become a Healing Touch International Practitioner in June 2013. I am so pleased to offer this wonderful healing therapy to my patients, friends, and clients.
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