Reiki Links & Info Archive
Originally from Ontario Reiki Programme
Centre
Reiki in Integrative Medicine
This page provides an overview of some of
the programmes providing or teaching Reiki in care centres and of
some of the existing research.
Please let us know of any health care centres that provide Reiki
that we can provide links to.
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The
Canadian Interdisciplinary Network for CAM Research is a
collaborative research network, created to foster
excellence in CAM research in Canada. Join them
for research opportunities, a newsletter, and other resources.
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Boston Children's Hospital
Center for Holistic Pediatric Education and Research
provides consultation, services, and research.
See also their
Pediatric Integrative Medicine Project
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Hartford CT's
Hartford Hospital has an
Integrative Medicine Programme, which just won an
award. In January through June of 2002 approximately 1,480
Reiki sessions were provided at Hartford Hospital, and they have
records of the improvements.
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New Hampshire's
Center for Integrative Medicine
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Reiki is used to
treat acute and chronic pain at the
Pain Management Center at Elliot Hospital in NH.
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The California
Pacific Medical Centre's
Institute for Health and Healing
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Ottawa's
Sandy Hill Community Health Centre
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Ottawa's Pink
Triangle services provide
Counselling and therapy for the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and
transgender community
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Houston Texas'
Child Trauma Academy
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Ottawa's
Bruce House AIDS hospice
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AIDS-Committee of Ottawa
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The Marvelle Koffler Breast Centre recovery centre for breast
cancer patients at Toronto's Mt. Sinai hospital
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Memorial Sloan-Kettering's Integrative Medicine Service offers
many alternatives including Reiki treatments and training for
their cancer patients.
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Survivors of child
sexual abuse may obtain treatment including Reiki and other
similar methodologies at
Tamara's House. Site includes study documentation.
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Reiki is available
at the women's health centre at the University of Conneticut's
Charlotte Johnson Hollelder Center
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Wilcox Hospital in Hawaii provides Reiki among its offerings
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The Zakim Centre for Integrative Therapies provides Reiki
at their
Pain and Palliative care clinic.
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Yale/New-Haven Hospital offers Reiki, and
Yale University's School of Nursing teaches Reiki
Note that there are many centres,
especially in the non-profit sector, where Reiki is provided on a
voluntary basis, and no information is available on the WWW. From
Nursing World Magazine, as of 1991, " Forty-seven percent (25)
of the BONs (Boards of Nursing) who permitted (Alternative Therapy
practice by nurses) had statements or positions that included
specific complementary therapies or examples of these practices;
thirteen percent (7) were in the process of discussing the topic
and, forty percent (21) had not formally addressed the topic, but
did not necessarily discourage these practices." In many cases where
the practices were identified, Reiki was specifically included in
the list of identified therapies. Some states include the practices
explicitly within the practice of nursing, and some exclude it.
In
Reiki—Review of a Biofield Therapy: History, Theory, Practice, and
Research, Pamela Miles and Gala True, PhD list some twenty-five
hospitals and clinics in the United States that provide Reiki.
Further, they observe that "The majority of these programs have not
been subject to systematic evaluation due to budgetary and time
constraints. However, staff, patients, and program administrators
report a number of benefits including reduced anxiety and lower use
of pain medications, increased patient satisfaction for surgical
patients, and decreased numbers of self-reported common
gerontological complaints such as anxiety, loneliness, insomnia, and
pain among older individuals living in the community. Reiki can
easily fit within the harm reduction model and can be successfully
used in self-treatment in combination with appropriate
medical/psychiatric care by people with combined HIV and psychiatric
diagnoses for emotional centering, pain management, and support in
recovery readiness."
Research, Articles, and Studies
Health Care Centres providing Reiki and
teaching programmes in universities, colleges, and hospitals are on the
archived
Existing Programmes Page.
The first group of papers is ours: these
provide an overview of existing research in an area and describe how the
documented effects of Reiki apply to the symptoms of a particular
condition. Due to the fact that each note has to stand on its own
merits, and there is a lot of overlap between conditions (e.g., material
on pain management), there is necessarily some overlap between them.
Research and Link Categories
This list is not (cannot be) exhaustive. If
you know of a link that should be included,
please let me know.
Reiki in General
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Journals & Databases
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Physics/Biology Focus
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Societies and Research
Centres
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The
Canadian Interdisciplinary Network for CAM Research is a
collaborative research network, created to foster
excellence in CAM research in Canada. Join them
for research opportunities, a newsletter, and other resources.
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Canadian Complementary Medicine Association, a network of
Canadian physicians, osteopaths, residents and medical students
with a special interest or expertise in complementary medicine.
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The International
Institute of Biophysics, the edge of the wedge...
Activities of the IIB
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The University of
Toronto's
CAMLab
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A medical Centre
with CAM trials - was the home institute of Elisabeth Targ
California Pacific Medical Center - Research Institute Programs
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Dr Patch Adams' home
site
Gesundheit! Institute
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The Healing touch
community has an extensive body of research, some of which is at
Healing Touch: Research (and more of which can be obtained by
writing them)
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Dr.Heather Boon's page of CAM Articles at the University of
Toronto
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The International
Institue of Noetic Science explores the edges at
IONS
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Documenting energy
medicine studies since 1990, abstracts and conference information
is at
ISSSEEM, The International Society for the Study of Subtle
Energies and Energy Medicine
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Research programmes
from basic science to clinical tests can be found at the
Johns Hopkins CAM Centre
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The US' National
Institute of Health's CAM centre, apply here for your Reiki study
grant...
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)
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A UK site for the
Research Council for Complementary Medicine - RCCM
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The University of
Miami's Touch Research Institute is at
TRI Homepage Michigan's CAM research is at
U of Mich Comp Med Research
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Individual Papers,
Studies and Articles
These papers are of particular interest
(according to us); sometimes the parent site is linked elsewhere on
this page
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By
Condition
- Dr. Jeri Mills'
website is
Tapestry of Healing. She is a physician who has worked in
obstetrics and gynecology and is now working in emergency
medicine. Jeri is also a veterinarian, and Reiki Master Teacher
who has used Reiki in her practice. She has written about it in
her book “Tapestry of Healing: Where Reiki and Medicine
Intertwine”. She is a speaker and teacher, and works to get
integrative medicine programmes in hospitals.
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Women's Centre for Mind-Body Health provides research links
and background with a focus on Women's Health (Author is an
OB/GYN) and imagery (no Reiki, but good resource)
- An article on
M.D.s using Reiki, including a description of Reiki used for
birthing and for pediatrics.
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Tamara's house provides support for survivors of child sexual
abuse - they have an article on
Child Sexual Abuse Victims and Reiki
(Note: We are helping Tamara's House keep their volunteer Reiki
programme staffed. For details, please see the
volunteer posting.)
- An on-line panel
discussion of
Breast Cancer Pain and its management by oncologists,
including the head of the pain clinic at the NIH hospital
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Yale University is looking for women who have had a breast
biopsy to receive Reiki treatments as part of a study
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Oncology Nursing Society has papers on their site (recently
redesigned - search site for Reiki.)
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treatment information, including information on
complementary therapies, for people living with the virus,
their families, care providers, AIDS Service Organizations and
Health Care Intermediaries.
A report on CAM
usage by Vancouver's male gay/bisexual populace:
AIDS: The Vanguard Project; another review of CAM use by the
HIV/AIDS community concludes that
Most HIV-infected patients use complementary and alternative
medicine
HIV-AIDS and Reiki Level 1 is a case study of an HIV/AIDS
patient who learned Reiki.
The Canadian
HIV/AIDS legal network's paper on
The Use of CAM
A World Health Organization paper on
Comprehensive Care Guidelines for Persons Living with HIV/AIDS in
the Americas includes Reiki for management of pain and for
palliative care.
A study of
HIV/AIDS patients who learn Reiki1 self-treatment and
other-treatment results
A resource for
HIV/AIDS, this link points to the page with their Reiki
articles...
The Body- Reiki
The Centre for
Disease Control's summary of
HIV/AIDS and Alternative Therapies
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Link
pages, home pages, collections
- Dr. Dan Benor's
extensive
Wholistic Healing Research site including references,
articles, links...
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Academic Research Supporting Reiki's Healing Effects
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The Alternative Medicine Homepage
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Alternative Medicine Resources
- Dr. Toni Bunnel's
Hands-on Healing Pages
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Healing Arts Children's Pages
, - Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona's
site and a lot of information on childhood brain-affecting
conditions and various treatments
- Large list of
papers, some links, some Norwegian, at
Healing Research
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Health Care Information Resources -- Alternative Medicine
provides a large, general, CAM link list
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UK Wellness: Complementary medicine includes lists of
conditions and treatments, including applicable CAM modalities
- The
UK Reiki Federation's - Research page and links
- W. L. Rand's
Centre for Reiki Training's Reiki Research page, and their
Reiki News Article Archive
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Ottawa Doula Services has an extensive collection of links
for perinatal support
- Positive Health
Magazine's summaries of new research are at
Research Updates - Alternative Medicine
- Anastasia
Bogolomova's
Reiki Med Research site has case report summaries, links,
and you can sign up to participate in a remote healing trial
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