| Literature DB >> 34921360 |
Bruno Müller-Oerlinghausen1,2, Michael Eggart3, Henrik Norholt4, Michael Gerlach5, Gabriele Mariell Kiebgis6, Michaela Maria Arnold7, Kerstin Uvnäs Moberg8.
Abstract
Skin-to-skin-contact presents the earliest sensory experience of men and animals. Deprivation of age-relevant touch experiences during infancy results in compromised psychosocial and biological development. The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded for the discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch. Clinical studies have demonstrated the benefit of professional salutary touch for prevention and treatment of various illnesses. However, in the present practice of medicine the application of salutary touch does not meet adequate interest. Proposing a new medical discipline "Touch Medicine" we link the findings of modern touch research to clinical medicine. The treatment of depression which we conceive primarily as a disease afflicting the body will serve as an example to demonstrate the usefulness of touch therapy. Controlled studies and systematic reviews have convincingly shown antidepressive, anxiolytic and analgesic effects of salutary touch. The effectiveness and efficacy of touch therapy has also been demonstrated in many areas such as neonatology, pediatrics, oncology, and geriatrics. We discuss the underlying mechanisms on various explanatory levels including interoceptive and oxytocinergic mechanisms as well as the role of C tactile afferent nerve fibers. The Author(s). This is an open access article published by Thieme under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonDerivative-NonCommercial License, permitting copying and reproduction so long as the original work is given appropriate credit. Contents may not be used for commecial purposes, or adapted, remixed, transformed or built upon. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).Entities:
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Year: 2021 PMID: 34921360 PMCID: PMC8841210 DOI: 10.1055/a-1687-2445
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Dtsch Med Wochenschr ISSN: 0012-0472 Impact factor: 0.628
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| Fachgebiet | Berührungsmedizinische Effekte |
| Onkologie | Schmerzen ↓, Fatigue ↓, Übelkeit ↓, Angst ↓, Depression ↓ (Cassileth & Vickers, 2004), gesundheitsbezogene Lebensqualität ↑ (Crawford et al., 2016) |
| Schmerztherapie | Subakutes und chronisches Lumbalsyndrom ↓, Funktionsfähigkeit ↑ (Brosseau et al., 2012), Nacken- und Schulterschmerzen ↓ (Kong et al., 2013), Spannungskopfschmerz ↓ (Espí-López et al., 2016), Migräne ↓ (Chaibi et al., 2011) |
| Rheumatologie | Fibromyalgie (Schmerzen ↓, Angst ↓, Depression ↓, gesundheitsbezogene Lebensqualität ↑) (Yuan et al., 2015) |
| Kardiologie | Essenzielle Hypertonie ↓ (Xiong et al., 2015), Herzratenvariabilität ↑ (Meier et al., 2020) |
| Gastroenterologie | Obstipation ↓ (Ernst, 1999), Komplikationen bei enteraler Ernährung ↓ (Uysal et al., 2012) |
| Chirurgie | Schmerzen ↓, Angst ↓, Entspannung ↑, Sedativa ↓ (Ramesh et al., 2015) |
| Neurologie | Multiple Sklerose (Fatigue ↓, Schmerzen ↓, Angst ↓, Depression ↓, Spastik ↓) (Heidari et al., 2021), Parkinson (Entspannung ↓, Stress ↓, Lebensqualität ↑, Schlafstörungen ↓, Schmerzen ↓, Fatigue ↓, Angst ↓, Depression ↓) (Angelopoulou et al., 2020) |
| Geburtshilfe | Geburtsschmerzen ↓, Angst ↓ (Smith et al., 2012), postpartale Depression ↓ (Müller & Grunwald, 2021) |
| Neonatologie | Gewicht ↑, Hospitalisierungszeit ↓ (Wang et al., 2013), Ikterus ↓ (Lei et al., 2018), Stress durch medizinische Prozeduren ↓ (Roshanray et al., 2020), motorische Entwicklung ↑ (Field, 2019) |
| Pädiatrie | Asthma (Lungenfunktion ↑) (Wu et al., 2017), Angst ↓, Schlafstörungen ↓, Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit-/Hyperaktivitäts-Störung ↓, Aggression ↓, posttraumatischer Stress ↓, atopische Dermatitis ↓, gastrointestinale Beschwerden ↓ (Field, 2019) |
| Psychiatrie | Depression (auch als Komorbidität) ↓, Eigenschaftsangst ↓ (Moyer et al., 2004; Baumgart et al., 2011), generalisierte Angststörung ↓ (Rapaport et al., 2016) |
| Dermatologie | Hypertrophe Narben nach Verbrennungen (Narbendicke ↓, Vaskularisation ↓, Pruritus ↓, Schmerzen ↓, Depression ↓) (Ault et al., 2018) |
| Geriatrie | Agitation, Aggression und Depression bei Demenz ↓ (Margenfeld et al., 2019) |