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THERAPUTIC TOUCH INTERNAIONAL ASSOCIATION, INC
First International Conference in Boston, MA April 2009
The First International Congress on Therapeutic Touch was April 23, 2009 and featured an outstanding roster of keynote speakers including our founder, Dolores Krieger, RN, PhD, and Dr. Serena Roney-Dougal from the United Kingdom. The concurrent sessions, poster presentations and International panel are a wonderful mix of presenters from Europe, Australia, North America, Africa, South America, the Middle East and Asia. The conference was in Boston from April 23 to 27. Go to www.therapeutic-touch.org for more information
Rebecca and Pat Winstead Fry presented at the TIIA conference on:
Therapeutic Touch and Pain and Anxiety: Present Knowledge as a Springboard for Future Directions and Integration
New Name
Nurse Healers-Professional Associates International (NH-PAI) is now be known as Therapeutic Touch International Association. (TTIA). NH-PAI will remain as the Credentialing body.
Therapeutic Touch Research Feature for April
Research on Therapeutic Touch supported by Grants from the NIH at the University of Connecticut Health Center has demonstrated that Therapeutic Touch stimulates proliferation of a variety of normal human cells in contrast to cells from tumors.
Therapeutic Touch Stimulates the Proliferation of Human Cells in Culture
Gloria A Gronowicz, PhD; Ankor Jhaveri, BA; Libbe Clark, RN, TTP; Michael S. Aronow, MD; Theresa H. Smith, PhD.
Journal of Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Volume 14, Number 3, 2008
Address reprints to Gloria Gronowicz, PhD
Department of Surgery MC 3105
University of Connecticut Health Center
Farmington, CT 06030-3105
email gronowicz@nsol.edu
Gloria presented her research at the TTIA International Congress on Therapeutic Touch in April.
Cancer Wellness House Therapeutic Touch Program
The program is going into its 5th year. We continue to have a wonderful response from the CWH members. Members are individuals who have cancer, survived cancer, and their families and friends who are supporting them on the journey to healing. TT is offered monthly by myself and several other TT practitioners.
Visit with Dr Dolores Krieger April 2008
I visited Dr Krieger at her home in beautiful Columbia Falls, MT. At that time we roamed the Columbia Falls and Kalispel area where she hangs out. She shared her home on beautiful Columbia Falls Animal Refuge with me. I saw the beautiful grotto which is being put together by creativity of Krieger's Krazies as well as nieghbors.
During that visit, I also interviewed Dee Krieger for a chapter in the Elsevier book on CAM. Our focus was on Therapeutic Touch and Fibromylagia Syndone (FMS).
Sun chimes gently jingled while doing the interview, and we were observed through her sunroom window by several wildlife animals. The deer and an occcasional squirrel peered in the window to see what was going on. Wild Turkeys ran through the yard making their sounds and arousing Dee's beautiful dogs from their lazy slumber. Birds of all kinds were in view. Fortunately, the reserve's resident bear family and frequent visitor did not come out as it was still cold and snowy.
Nurses Week at St Mary's Hospital
In May 2008 I was invited to share Therapeutic Touch with the Nursing Staff at St Marys Hospital in Grand Junction Colorado. What a wonderful response. After a doing a one day TT Intensive with TT practitioners I had taught from St Mary's, they worked with me to share TT in the main Hospital and Cancer Center as well as several other satelites. Sharon Gately, MSN, RN, another QTTT from Salt Lake area also came and shared TT. It was so well accepted that I will be doing back to back Basic TT workshops in October to teach the nurses. The administration's goal is to requre mentoring and credentialing in order to incorporate TT into the St Marys Hospital system.
AHNA presentation on Therapeutic Touch and Pain
June 2008
I presented with Pat Winstead Fry, PhD, RN at the American Holistic Nurses Association's (AHNA) annual conference.on Therapeutic Touch and Pain. It was well attended and we had a lot of interest in TT as well as its use and success with pain.
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