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Touch – Perception – Communication In the Context of Osteopathic Treatment

Journal: Unpublished MSc thesis Wiener Schule für Osteopathie, Date: 2008/02, Pages: 95, type of study: review

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Keywords:

communication [72]
palpation [170]
perception [89]
touch [64]
review [496]
osteopathic manipulative treatment [2973]
OMT [2951]
msc thesis [22]
WSO [433]

Abstract:

OBJECITVE: Every day osteopaths palpate and touch patients. We communicate, touch them, perceive them. Taking a look at the patients, listening closely to them, taking time, touching and palpating them, the question of a closer investigation of the “tactile touch” imposes itself. This against the background of many people getting complaints because of pressure and stress in every-day life. The technical advance of medicine and the medical apparatus have gained a lot of importance. The hands for palpating, touching, feeling are threatened to be shoved into the background. This lead to the question of a tactile (haptic) Touch – Perception – Communication to a context of osteopathic treatment. METHODS: Through a scientific analysis of literature (review) an overview of the tactile touch should be achieved. Because of the wide range of a touch, it was limited to the tactile (haptic) touch. Therapy it was established, that the perception (personality perception) and communication (nonverbal communication) interact with touch with respect to this and therefore cannot be seen seperately. RESULT: On the basis of studies and result with regard to the mechanisms of human perception and their communication the meaning and importance of a tactile touch – personality perception – nonverbal communication in mutual interaction is underlined in the context of osteopathic treatment. An influence on the body and its functions becomes evident and the process of healing is supported. CONCLUSION: Even though a limitation on the tactile touch had to be made for the process of this study, the importance of the connection with the communication of personality perception and nonverbal could show, that all three aspects interact and therefore stand in the context of an osteopathic treatment. They can make an important contribution for a successful therapeutic intervention.


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