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Unlike massage, which is hands-on healing, therapeutic touch is based on the assumption that a "human energy field" extends beyond the skin. The idea behind therapeutic touch is that this human energy field is abundant and flows in balanced patterns in health but is depleted and/or unbalanced in illness or injury. Practitioners work to restore health by sensing and adjusting such fields. Proponents say therapeutic touch can heal wounds, relieve tension headaches, reduce stress and pain, and facilitate "the body's natural restorative processes."

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