Are there significant differences in motivations for training, clinical practice characteristics, and well-being between physicians and other practitioners of other healing arts? This question, posed by Marc Edwards, a family physician who teaches in the Integrative Medicine program at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, has great relevance to Reiki practitioners. We encourage you […]
CRR President Natalie Dyer’s recent paper, “Evaluation of a Reiki Volunteer Program within Two Cancer Infusion Centers,” published in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, is open access for a limited time. The results show Reiki significantly improved cancer patients’ pain, anxiety, fatigue, nausea, and wellbeing. Read paper here.
By Ann Baldwin, PhD, Professor Emerita of Physiology, University of Arizona; Director of Mind-Body-Science; and Editor-in-Chief, Center for Reiki Research According to the NIH National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health web site entry for Reiki (last updated in December 2018): “Reiki hasn’t been clearly shown to be effective for any health-related purpose. It has […]
The 2024 International Reiki Research Conference proceedings, along with the 2023 Reiki Research Conference proceedings and all CRR’s past webinars, are available in video on demand here.
A paper recently published in the Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine presents comprehensive guidelines developed to help improve reporting of clinical trials of biofield therapies including Reiki. The guidelines, called Biofield Therapies: Reporting Evidence Guidelines (BiFi REGs), supplement CONSORT 2010 by including details of the intervention protocols relevant to biofield therapy trials. Authors Richard Hammerschlag, Meredith […]
