Exploratory Program Grant for Frontier Medicine

前沿医学探索计划补助金

• 批准号: 6748210
• 负责人: KAREN M PRESTWOOD
• 金额: $ 62.39万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCH OF MED/DNT
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-09-01 至 2007-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6748210
• 关键词: alternative medicine; clinical research

DESCRIPTION (provided by the applicant): In the United States, the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) increased by approximately 25% between 1990 and 1997. The number of visits to CAM practitioners was 629 million and exceeded visits to primary care physicians by about 250 million in 1997. In spite of the extensive use of CAM in the US and internationally, we know little about the safety and efficacy, mechanism of action and longer-term outcomes of many popular modalities. Energy medicine modalities, including therapeutic touch, healing touch and reiki, are commonly utilized for conditions ranging from headache to cancer yet our understanding of the human energy field and how it may be used in healing is limited. Although many of these therapies have been used for hundreds or even thousands of years, the current medical and scientific environment demands that we begin to apply rigorous standards to the study of this field. The Exploratory Center for Frontier Medicine at the University of Connecticut Health Center (UCHC), in collaboration with the University of Iowa, will focus on biofield/energy healing, specifically therapeutic touch and healing touch. We have chosen our major projects based on the research strengths of the principal investigators and designed projects in close collaboration with experienced practitioners in energy medicine. We have created a plan for collaboration between projects and between institutions which we believe will provide the infrastructure to 'nurture and advance this field of biomedical science'. The administrative core of the Center will provide the scientific and educational infrastructure for investigators in frontier medicine. The core will take advantage of the rich academic environments at the University of Connecticut and Iowa in order to provide an infrastructure in which to evaluate the effects of therapeutic and healing touch on several human diseases and processes. The four projects include basic and clinical science. The studies are: Project #1 (Dr. Karen Prestwood) The effect of therapeutic touch on bone metabolism in postmenopausal women after wrist fracture; Project #2 (Dr. Gloria Gronowicz) The effect of therapeutic touch on bone formation in vitro; Project #3 (Dr. Theresa Smith) The effect of therapeutic touch on human fibroblast biology; and Project #4 (Dr. Susan Lutgendorf) Healing touch in advanced cervical cancer: immune effects and mechanisms.

描述（由申请人提供）：在美国，补充和替代医学（CAM）的使用在1990年至1997年间增加了大约25%。辅助医学从业者的访问量为6.29亿，超过了初级保健的访问量

项目成果

New insights on therapeutic touch: a discussion of experimental methodology and design that resulted in significant effects on normal human cells and osteosarcoma.

关于治疗触摸的新见解：对对正常人体细胞和骨肉瘤产生显着影响的实验方法和设计的讨论。

• DOI: 10.1016/j.explore.2010.10.001
• 发表时间: 2011
• 期刊: Explore (New York, N.Y.)
• 作者: Monzillo,Eloise;Gronowicz,Gloria
• 通讯作者: Gronowicz,Gloria

Preservation of immune function in cervical cancer patients during chemoradiation using a novel integrative approach.

• DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2010.06.014
• 发表时间: 2010-11
• 期刊: BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND IMMUNITY
• 影响因子: 15.1
• 作者: Lutgendorf, Susan K.;Mullen-Houser, Elizabeth;Russell, Daniel;DeGeest, Koen;Jacobson, Geraldine;Hart, Laura;Bender, David;Anderson, Barrie;Buekers, Thomas E.;Goodheart, Michael J.;Antoni, Michael H.;Sood, Anil K.;Lubaroff, David M.
• 通讯作者: Lubaroff, David M.