It's hard to imagine that something with a name so pleasing as therapeutic touch could

be pure pseudoscience, but just start with the fact that it doesn't involve any touching

at all.

Therapeutic touch, popular among nurses and at nursing schools, requires the practitioner

to gently manipulate hypothetical energy fields, believed to be floating around the patient's

body.

Is this something we should point our skeptical eye at?

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