The healing power of touch: the specificity of the 'unspecific' effects of massage

Forsch Komplementmed. 2014;21(5):282-3. doi: 10.1159/000368449. Epub 2014 Sep 26.

Authors

Frauke Musial¹, Thomas Weiss

Affiliation

¹ National Research Center in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NAFKAM), Department of Community Medicine, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.

PMID: 25427518
DOI: 10.1159/000368449

No abstract available

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Emotions
Humans
Massage / standards*
Nerve Fibers, Unmyelinated / physiology*
Pleasure
Touch / physiology*