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Self-Reiki, Consideration of a Potential Option for Managing Chronic Pain during Pandemic COVID-19 Period
While the world faces an unprecedented situation with the pandemic, other chronic diseases such as chronic pain continue to run their course. The social distancing and restrictive displacement imposed by the pandemic situation represents a new barrier to access to pain management and tends to reinfo...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8466281/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34577790 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina57090867 |
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description | While the world faces an unprecedented situation with the pandemic, other chronic diseases such as chronic pain continue to run their course. The social distancing and restrictive displacement imposed by the pandemic situation represents a new barrier to access to pain management and tends to reinforce chronification process. Given this context, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) might offer new opportunities to manage CP, notably with a hand-touch method, such as self-Reiki therapy. Although Reiki administered by a practitioner has shown promising results to reduce pain and psychological distress, and to improve quality of life, self-Reiki practice needs evidence-based medicine to be disseminated. Overall, self-Reiki could bring positive results in addition to, and without interfering with, conventional medicine approaches in patients experienced chronic pain. |
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spelling | pubmed-84662812021-09-27 Self-Reiki, Consideration of a Potential Option for Managing Chronic Pain during Pandemic COVID-19 Period Billot, Maxime Daycard, Maeva Rigoard, Philippe Medicina (Kaunas) Opinion While the world faces an unprecedented situation with the pandemic, other chronic diseases such as chronic pain continue to run their course. The social distancing and restrictive displacement imposed by the pandemic situation represents a new barrier to access to pain management and tends to reinforce chronification process. Given this context, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) might offer new opportunities to manage CP, notably with a hand-touch method, such as self-Reiki therapy. Although Reiki administered by a practitioner has shown promising results to reduce pain and psychological distress, and to improve quality of life, self-Reiki practice needs evidence-based medicine to be disseminated. Overall, self-Reiki could bring positive results in addition to, and without interfering with, conventional medicine approaches in patients experienced chronic pain. MDPI 2021-08-25 /pmc/articles/PMC8466281/ /pubmed/34577790 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina57090867 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Opinion Billot, Maxime Daycard, Maeva Rigoard, Philippe Self-Reiki, Consideration of a Potential Option for Managing Chronic Pain during Pandemic COVID-19 Period |
title | Self-Reiki, Consideration of a Potential Option for Managing Chronic Pain during Pandemic COVID-19 Period |
title_full | Self-Reiki, Consideration of a Potential Option for Managing Chronic Pain during Pandemic COVID-19 Period |
title_fullStr | Self-Reiki, Consideration of a Potential Option for Managing Chronic Pain during Pandemic COVID-19 Period |
title_full_unstemmed | Self-Reiki, Consideration of a Potential Option for Managing Chronic Pain during Pandemic COVID-19 Period |
title_short | Self-Reiki, Consideration of a Potential Option for Managing Chronic Pain during Pandemic COVID-19 Period |
title_sort | self-reiki, consideration of a potential option for managing chronic pain during pandemic covid-19 period |
topic | Opinion |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8466281/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34577790 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina57090867 |
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