Therapeutic Touch Helps Phantom Limb Pain

The Guild of Energists (GoE)
Therapeutic Touch Helps Phantom Limb Pain
An example of how Therapeutic Touch can be used on 'Phantom Pain' sufferers/ amputees

The Guild of Energists (GoE) has posted an article:

Rev. David Maginley writes: "But his leg isn't there! How are you going to treat it?" The nurse was curious but emphatic. As a chaplain who uses Therapeutic Touch as part of my pastoral care at the Queen Elizabeth II Heath Sciences Centre, it's always exciting to be consulted on a case where the staff feel Therapeutic Touch might help. In this case, another chaplain had called me in to help a man with phantom limb pain. The leg had been amputated above the knee, yet he complained of severe pain in the "missing" foot. Could Therapeutic Touch help? I was curious as well.

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