Meijer Larissa L, Ruis Carla, van der Smagt Maarten J, Dijkerman H Chris
Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
J Neuropsychol. 2023 Sep;17(3):584-589. doi: 10.1111/jnp.12321. Epub 2023 Apr 28.
Affective touch is gentle slow stroking of the skin, which can reduce experimentally induced pain. Our participant, suffering from Parkinson's Disease and chronic pain, received 1 week of non-affective touch and 1 week of affective touch as part of a larger study. Interestingly, after 2 days of receiving affective touch, the participant started to feel less pain. After 7 days, the burning painful sensations fully disappeared. This suggest that affective touch may reduce chronic pain in clinical populations.
情感触摸是对皮肤进行轻柔缓慢的抚摸,它能够减轻实验诱导的疼痛。作为一项更大规模研究的一部分,我们的参与者患有帕金森病和慢性疼痛,接受了为期1周的非情感触摸和1周的情感触摸。有趣的是,在接受情感触摸2天后,参与者开始感觉疼痛减轻。7天后,灼痛完全消失。这表明情感触摸可能减轻临床人群的慢性疼痛。