Touch – Perception – CommunicationIn the Context of Osteopathic Treatment
Item
- Title
- Touch – Perception – CommunicationIn the Context of Osteopathic Treatment
- Author(s)
- Schuster Kerstin
- Abstract
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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. - Abstract
- presented at
- Wiener Schule für Osteopathie
- Date Accepted
- 2008
- Date Submitted
- 1.2.2008 00:00:00
- Type
- osteo_thesis
- Language
- English
- Number of pages
- 95
- Submitted by:
- 62
- Pub-Identifier
- 13905
- Inst-Identifier
- 781
- Keywords
- Touch,Perception,Communication
- Recommended
- 0
- Medium
- SchusterKerstineng.pdf
- Item sets
- Thesis
- Media
- SchusterKerstineng.pdf
Schuster Kerstin, “Touch – Perception – CommunicationIn the Context of Osteopathic Treatment”, Osteopathic Research Web, accessed May 17, 2024, https://www.osteopathicresearch.org/s/orw/item/2951