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

IF 2 4区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY

Journal of Neuropsychology Pub Date : 2023-04-28 DOI:10.1111/jnp.12321

Larissa L. Meijer, Carla Ruis, Maarten J. van der Smagt, H. Chris Dijkerman

引用次数: 2

Abstract

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.

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接受情感触摸后慢性疼痛缓解:1例报告

情感触摸是对皮肤的轻柔缓慢的抚摸，可以减少实验中引起的疼痛。我们的参与者患有帕金森病和慢性疼痛，作为一个更大的研究的一部分，他们接受了一周的非情感触摸和一周的情感触摸。有趣的是，在接受情感触摸两天后，参与者开始感到更少的疼痛。7天后，灼痛感完全消失。这表明情感触摸可以减轻临床人群的慢性疼痛。

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来源期刊

Journal of Neuropsychology 医学-心理学

CiteScore

4.50

自引率

4.50%

发文量

审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： The Journal of Neuropsychology publishes original contributions to scientific knowledge in neuropsychology including: • clinical and research studies with neurological, psychiatric and psychological patient populations in all age groups • behavioural or pharmacological treatment regimes • cognitive experimentation and neuroimaging • multidisciplinary approach embracing areas such as developmental psychology, neurology, psychiatry, physiology, endocrinology, pharmacology and imaging science The following types of paper are invited: • papers reporting original empirical investigations • theoretical papers; provided that these are sufficiently related to empirical data • review articles, which need not be exhaustive, but which should give an interpretation of the state of research in a given field and, where appropriate, identify its clinical implications • brief reports and comments • case reports • fast-track papers (included in the issue following acceptation) reaction and rebuttals (short reactions to publications in JNP followed by an invited rebuttal of the original authors) • special issues.