Reiki Research Paper

Biology 1210
Final Paper
Is Reiki Worth the Pain? Pain is no stranger to the human race, but how people choose to treat the problems is completely up to them. Modern medicine has made significant discoveries, but people don’t always trust western medicine treatments or they may not work for the person. An alternative is Reiki. This practice is light-touch and is believed to help the body heal itself by using the energy of the universe. Reiki is a complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) but is classified under the biofield energy (Thrane & Cohen, 2014). Reiki is meant to fix mental and emotional problems such as pain, stress, anxiety, depression, and fatigue. From my research I discovered that reiki can decrease the problems if their is …show more content…
Of the subgroups each would contain one reiki, one sham reiki, and the control group. For the reiki group the practitioner must have the certification to the levels of reiki that pass on the energy to the patient. Session for reiki and sham reiki should go anywhere from 30 to 90 minutes. The sham reiki practitioner can’t believe that reiki therapy works, but should be able to mimic the motions of a reiki treatment. The cancer patient should be undergoing some form of cancer treatment, preferably chemotherapy. There will be a pre and post evaluation for each chemotherapy treatment and pre and post for the surgery. When the reiki and sham reiki are performed will be at different times, for the surgery patients, to see if that can have an effect on the pain levels. The time intervals for the surgery will be 72, 48, and 24 hours before and the same intervals after. The cancer patients will be checked in with after two months. The patients age range will be from 18 to 95. This is only a short-term experiment that won’t follow the patients to see if the reiki sessions will help them in the long run or if they continue to seek reiki sessions for as long as they live. I predict that in the short span that patients will report decreased stress, anxiety, and pain from the sessions they receive and the time the therapy is performed will have an affect how of effective the sessions are for the patient. If the null hypothesis …show more content…
The hypothesis should have said whether there will be a difference in the actual versus the sham to see if the patients just needed more touch-comfort from others to feel better. Another part to change the hypothesis to be more specific is how much comfort the reiki treatment would provide to the patients as well as if the patients had tried reiki or another spiritual type of medical treatment. For the results that were received the hypothesis is correct that the reiki in someway was able to provide more comfort to the suffering patients. The parts that need to change in the study design are how the patients need to be randomly selected when it comes to the groups of control, actual reiki, or sham reiki. The age of the patients may also need to pushed to a closer age range, that way the results don’t have outliers. This will also help with some of the older population not believing reiki because it wasn’t looked highly upon from religious groups. However, in Hart’s (2012) findings there are nun and parish nurses that practice the touch healing

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