Energy Healing Effective, Says Stanford University Study
More good news from academia: study after study shows the effectiveness of energy healing. According to Stanford University, “complementary and alternative therapies continue to grow in popularity among healthcare consumers.” Number one among these modalities is energy healing (Eisenberg et al., 1998 – http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16056170 ). “Energy healing is an adjunctive treatment that is noninvasive and poses little downside risk to patients,” writes Eisenberg. “Well more than 50 major hospitals and clinics throughout the United States offer energy healing to patients.”
It’s not just the university establishment that’s on board, either. The National Institutes of Health is currently funding numerous energy healing studies that are examining its effects on a variety of conditions, “including temporomandibular joint disorders, wrist fractures, cardiovascular health, cancer, wound healing, neonatal stress, pain, fibromyalgia, and AIDS.”
Several well-documented and designed studies to date have demonstrated great results in wound healing, advanced AIDS, and positive results for pain and anxiety. These studies also show that energy healing has positive effects on orthopedic conditions like fracture healing, arthritis, and muscle and connective tissue. According to the Stanford University study, “Because negative outcomes risk is at or near zero throughout the literature, energy healing is a candidate for use on many medical conditions.”
They could have just asked me – or any of my clients! What do you think of the research, and is it important?
That is really cool! My own doctor is a fan of it, too.
It really excites me when the medical community finally gets up to speed :o) I’m grateful to have this study to share with my clients.
Is there a known (or even a hypothesized mechanism) for this? It could simply be the placebo effect, correct? Even it were the placebo effect that would not invalidate the treatment, after all there are no negative side effects so why not try it. Still if there was indeed some non-placebo effect it would be very important to know and it would motivate more research into the mechanism behind the treatment.
This is fabulous! So exciting to see this, and I’m with you — could have just asked me. And yes, it is important because it gets the word out there to people who will follow only a doctor or a scientific study.