More consensual touch helps ease or buffer against mental and physical complaints, meta-analysis shows

Archived version: https://archive.ph/WdCJr

  • ivanafterall
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    115 months ago

    “Our work illustrates that touch interventions are best suited for reducing pain, depression and anxiety in adults and children as well as for increasing weight gain in newborns,” the researchers write.

    Are we just ignoring the fact that touch is making our babies fatter?

    • @Viking_Hippie
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      75 months ago

      Not to mention “adults and children” by definition encompassing literally all humans 😄

  • @Viking_Hippie
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    75 months ago

    Researchers from the “Creepy Guy At Work Who Won’t Stop Hugging Everyone” Institute?

    JK, in case there’s any doubt 😁

    • @[email protected]
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      65 months ago

      Speaking of creepy titles, I actually get paid to touch people to death.

      (I’m a hospice massage therapist 😛.)

      • @Viking_Hippie
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        5 months ago

        Sincerely, thank you for doing that job!

        As I’m sure you know, any kind of comfort and human connection is the best thing anyone can give people in that last time.

        You’re a bonafide everyday hero as far as I’m concerned!

    • @moistclump
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      25 months ago

      I appreciated the “consensual” caveat.