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What is Reiki Healing? Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing. It is administered by "laying on hands" and is based on the idea that an unseen "life force energy" flows through us and is what causes us to be alive.


Reasons Taken

22 patients in the community are having or have had Reiki Healing.

Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
General health 9 40%
Treat Parkinson's 3 13%
Other 3 13%
Depression 1 4%
Stiffness/spasticity 1 4%
Mobility 1 4%
Anxiety 1 4%
Slow my ALS progress 1 4%

Patient Reported Evaluations

Results from 1 patient evaluation. See the overall results and all individual evaluations.

Efficacy (Effect based on reason taken)

Moderate 100% 1

Mobility

Side-effects (as an overall problem)

Severe 0% 0
Moderate 0% 0
Mild 0% 0
None 100% 1

Top reported side-effects include:

Summary results are based on 1 individual response. For more information, see overall results for Adherence, Burden and Cost.

Individual Patient Reported Evaluations (1 of 1)

  • jmscout
    Sensation: None
    Overall: Mild
    Cognition: moderate
    Vision: none
    Speech: none
    Swallowing: none
    Upper limb: moderate
    Walking: moderate
  • jmscout
  • by jmscout
    Sep 17, 2008
  • EfficacyModerate
  • Side-effectsNone
  • Anxiety

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