Reiki is a complementary health approach to promote healing through stress reduction and relaxation. It is administered through a series of hand positions held on or above a patient’s body to help balance life and force energy through their bodies to help facilitate the patient’s own bodily healing response (National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, (NCCIH), 2015). This allows the body’s ability to heal and restore homeostasis through self-regulating mechanisms that maintain overall balance. When the body experiences sudden moderate to intense stress, which is over an extended period of time, the body’s ability to regulate itself is comprised and can result in a decline in health. The symptoms may not be noticeable and can
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Reiki is used for stress reduction, relaxation, and relief of symptoms to help improve overall health and well-being. Reiki is commonly used for people experiencing anxiety, chronic pain, HIV/AIDS, and other health conditions, as well as being used on surgical patients, preoperatively and postoperatively. Researchers Vitale and O’Connor (2006) examined the comparison of pain and levels of anxiety in women following their abdominal hysterectomy, 72 hours post operation and found significant results in patients who practiced Reiki before and post surgery. Patients reported needing less pain management compared to the controlled group who did not have Reiki therapy, suggesting the Reiki experience produced a positive effectiveness on anxiety and pain management and the healing effects of …show more content…
Cancer patients using Reiki as a method of managing chemotherapy side effects, have reported improvements in quality of life, mood status, and symptom distress during chemotherapy that were greater than those patients in the usual chemotherapy care groups. Coakley and Barron (2012) examined the effects and interventions of Reiki, Therapeutic Touch, and Healing Touch as energy therapies in relation to traditional oncology nursing and suggest that those energy therapies have a positive effect on symptoms associated with cancer. Studies have also found using Reiki therapy decreases stress hormones, improves blood pressure and heart rate, decreases cortisol levels, and increases natural killer cells and improved overall quality of life (Birocco et al., 2012; Díaz-Rodríguez et al., 2011). The effects of Reiki therapy in the management of anxiety, global wellness, and pain in cancer patients, using Reiki therapy during chemotherapy treatments, improved well-being (70%), relaxation (88%), and pain relief (45%), sleep quality (34%), and reduced anxiety (70%) (Birocco et al., 2012). Recognizing the ability to measure pain as an outcome variable of Reiki therapy is useful in the management of anxiety and pain during cancer care treatments as the response to emotional and psychological needs
Reiki is used for stress reduction, relaxation, and relief of symptoms to help improve overall health and well-being. Reiki is commonly used for people experiencing anxiety, chronic pain, HIV/AIDS, and other health conditions, as well as being used on surgical patients, preoperatively and postoperatively. Researchers Vitale and O’Connor (2006) examined the comparison of pain and levels of anxiety in women following their abdominal hysterectomy, 72 hours post operation and found significant results in patients who practiced Reiki before and post surgery. Patients reported needing less pain management compared to the controlled group who did not have Reiki therapy, suggesting the Reiki experience produced a positive effectiveness on anxiety and pain management and the healing effects of …show more content…
Cancer patients using Reiki as a method of managing chemotherapy side effects, have reported improvements in quality of life, mood status, and symptom distress during chemotherapy that were greater than those patients in the usual chemotherapy care groups. Coakley and Barron (2012) examined the effects and interventions of Reiki, Therapeutic Touch, and Healing Touch as energy therapies in relation to traditional oncology nursing and suggest that those energy therapies have a positive effect on symptoms associated with cancer. Studies have also found using Reiki therapy decreases stress hormones, improves blood pressure and heart rate, decreases cortisol levels, and increases natural killer cells and improved overall quality of life (Birocco et al., 2012; Díaz-Rodríguez et al., 2011). The effects of Reiki therapy in the management of anxiety, global wellness, and pain in cancer patients, using Reiki therapy during chemotherapy treatments, improved well-being (70%), relaxation (88%), and pain relief (45%), sleep quality (34%), and reduced anxiety (70%) (Birocco et al., 2012). Recognizing the ability to measure pain as an outcome variable of Reiki therapy is useful in the management of anxiety and pain during cancer care treatments as the response to emotional and psychological needs