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Ruth Duncan's In Touch Education Blog
Touch shapes perception and expectation, not just tissues, influencing how people experience, interpret and respond to care.
The value of touch therapy is not only in what it does to tissues but in how it helps our clients feel safe, supported and understood. Through skill, experience and training, we use touch as part of a wider therapeutic encounter. This blog invites you to reflect on your current practice and teaching, and to strengthen an evidence informed approach that supports better care and professional longevity.
Touch Therapies: The Immediate Power of Therapeutic Touch
Touch is one of the most fundamental ways human beings connect, communicate, and comfort each other. In healthcare and wellbeing settings,...
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Re-thinking What Happens When We Touch.
Touch isn’t just physical, it’s perceptual, emotional, and deeply communicative. For manual therapists, this should change everything.
Every time we place a hand on a client, we activate a complex...
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Touch and the PIEZO ion channels - their role in pain
When a manual touch therapist places their hands on the skin of a client, a sophisticated chain of biological events begins. What may feel like heat, pressure, movement or stretching is detected by sp...
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