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Holding hands can heal pain, that's the power of Human Touch

Written by  Nimrat Kaur -- March 03rd 2018 02:32 PM
Holding hands can heal pain, that's the power of Human Touch

Holding hands can heal pain, that's the power of Human Touch

With other ways to heal, we forget the foremost – Human Touch. Science has surely shown its colors, permutations and combinations, among the numerous developments and technological inventions; science has found the medicine for pain, heart rate, and a control over the brain wave. With technology, the act of meeting physically has slowly faded and among this development the most significant way to heal pain is lost too. As per a recent study, reach for the hand of a loved one in pain and not only will your breathing and heart rate synchronise with theirs, your brain wave patterns will couple up too. The research also found that the more empathy a comforting partner feels for a partner in pain, the more their brainwaves fall into sync. And the more those brain waves sync, the more the pain goes away. "We have developed a lot of ways to communicate in the modern world and we have fewer physical interactions," said Pavel Goldstein from University of Colorado at Boulder in the US. "This paper illustrates the power and importance of human touch," Goldstein said. The research was carried out by recruited 22 heterosexual couples, age 23 to 32 who had been together for at least one year. They were put through several two-minute scenarios as electroencephalography (EEG) caps measured their brainwave activity. The scenarios included sitting together not touching; sitting together holding hands; and sitting in separate rooms. Merely being in each other's presence, with or without touch, was associated with some brain wave synchronicity in the alpha mu band, a wavelength associated with focused attention. If they held hands while she was in pain, the coupling increased the most. The researchers also found that when she was in pain and he couldn't touch her, the coupling of their brain waves diminished. "It appears that pain totally interrupts this interpersonal synchronization between couples and touch brings it back," said Goldstein. -PTC News


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