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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 Sprengel, and Ann Baldwin say using these guidelines is likely to strengthen the evidence base for biofield therapies as well as increase their usage as stand-alone practices and as complementary therapies within mainstream healthcare.
Available to all CRR members, our Reiki Research List contains more than 130 links to published abstracts devoted to Reiki clinical and preclinical research; while our Reiki Research Summaries, available to associate and professional members, comprise several peer-reviewed evaluations combined into an easily understandable one-page summary.
The latest research summary, for example, reviews a 2023 study examining the effect of distant Reiki on pain and well-being for individuals with phantom limb pain.
Our reviewers agreed this is a novel contribution to the literature due to the assessment of distance Reiki in a population that had yet to be studied — post-amputation patients with phantom limb pain.
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For those of you who caught our last CRR webinar, the scientific article has now been published in the Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine, “An Evaluation of the Subjective Experience of Receiving Reiki: Qualitative Results from a Pragmatic Effectiveness Study.”
It was also named a high impact article and, as such, is available as open access!
Here is the link to read the article: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/jicm.2022.0477
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A key Center for Reiki Research (CRR) membership benefit is instant access to more than one hundred Reiki research study summaries demonstrating Reiki’s validity and efficacy.
The research study summaries are compiled by volunteer research professionals, using the Touchstone Process a uniquely rigorous peer review method for analyzing a group of scientific studies in a particular field. Its end product is a set of critical summaries derived from an impartial and consistent process.
CRR only considers studies published in peer-reviewed journals, as these have already gone through a process of professional scrutiny. Following expert review, cogent one-page summaries are prepared conveying the essential information in each article in an easily understandable and uniform way.
Take the 2017 Baldwin, AL, Vitale A, Brownell, E, Kryak, E, and Rand, W study “Effects of Reiki on pain, anxiety, and blood pressure in patients undergoing knee replacement surgery” for example.
Published in Holistic Nursing Practice, the study hypothesized Reiki would reduce post-operative pain, blood pressure, respiratory rate and anxiety. This was conceived as a three-group pilot study (15 patients per group), randomized and blinded. The method included a routine standard of care group, a Reiki group and, additionally, a sham Reiki group.
The results showed a statistically significant trend of pain reduction in the Reiki group not seen in either the standard of care group or sham Reiki Group. Only the Reiki group showed post-operative diminution in blood pressure and respiratory rate. The sham group showed a decrease in anxiety, but less than the group receiving Reiki.
This Institutional Review Board approved study is important due to its scientific rigor, and clear descriptions and analysis, with the data supporting the pursuit of a larger scale study.
Read the complete research summary here.
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