Chronic pain relief after receiving affective touch: A single case report

Affective touch is gentle slow stroking of the skin, which can reduce experimentally induced pain. Our participant, suffering from Parkinson's Disease and chronic pain, received 1 week of non-affective touch and 1 week of affective touch as part of a larger study. Interestingly, after 2 days of...

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Published inJournal of neuropsychology Vol. 17; no. 3; pp. 584 - 589
Main Authors Meijer, Larissa L, Ruis, Carla, van der Smagt, Maarten J, Dijkerman, H Chris
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England 01.09.2023
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chronic pain
affective touch
Parkinson's disease
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Summary:Affective touch is gentle slow stroking of the skin, which can reduce experimentally induced pain. Our participant, suffering from Parkinson's Disease and chronic pain, received 1 week of non-affective touch and 1 week of affective touch as part of a larger study. Interestingly, after 2 days of receiving affective touch, the participant started to feel less pain. After 7 days, the burning painful sensations fully disappeared. This suggest that affective touch may reduce chronic pain in clinical populations.
ISSN:1748-6645
1748-6653
DOI:10.1111/jnp.12321