The Pain & Therapy Bibliography, Record ID 2118
Pain: The science and culture of why we hurt
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item type
a page in a book
author
Marni Jackson
publisher
Random House
year
2003
page
p. 130 (Trade paperback edition)
the nugget
Alternative therapie are hard to evaluate, but that’s no reason not to explore them.
excerpt
Given the … multidisciplinary philosophy [of The Ninth World Congress of the International Association for the Study of Pain], I was surprised by the absence of alternative pain approaches — the whole spectrum of cranial-sacral massage [sic], healing-touch therapy, and other hands-on skills that are a lifeline to many people with chronic pain. Alternative therapie are hard to evaluate, but that’s no reason not to explore them.