Chronic pain relief after receiving affective touch: A single case report

Larissa L. Meijer; Carla Ruis; Maarten J. van der Smagt; H. Chris Dijkerman

doi:10.1111/jnp.12321

Chronic pain relief after receiving affective touch: A single case report

Larissa L. Meijer^*, Carla Ruis, Maarten J. van der Smagt, H. Chris Dijkerman

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Abstract

Affective touch is gentle slow stroking of the skin, which can reduce experimentally induced pain. Our participant, suffering from Parkinson's Disease and chronic pain, received 1 week of non-affective touch and 1 week of affective touch as part of a larger study. Interestingly, after 2 days of receiving affective touch, the participant started to feel less pain. After 7 days, the burning painful sensations fully disappeared. This suggest that affective touch may reduce chronic pain in clinical populations.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	584-589
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of Neuropsychology
Volume	17
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/jnp.12321
Publication status	Published - Sept 2023

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Funding Information:
This single case study is part of a larger study and project called, Affective touch reducing pain in Parkinson patients, which is sponsored by Stichting ParkinsonFonds.

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© 2023 The Authors. Journal of Neuropsychology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of The British Psychological Society.

Keywords

Humans
Touch
Chronic Pain
Physical Stimulation
Touch Perception
Skin

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