During the time that I have been in therapeutic touch I have experienced physical and psychological effects associated with therapeutic touch, it has given me a wider outlook, ideas and different theories and how it will affect me as a physiotherapist in the future.
First experience
During the massage I was focused on not trying to hurt the client as it was my first time working on a female, therefore I felt nervous as well and less confident while working on the client, but after time passed I became more confident while doing the massage and asked more questions and used different massage techniques.
Reflection
I felt nervous therefore messed up a lot on my informed consent, which probably made my client uncomfortable as well because I was …show more content…
This happened because of what was known as the ‘massage scandals of 1894 and the resulting actions of the founders of the Society of Trained Masseuses. Therefore the body-as-machine model was created, the purpose of this model was to create a particular attitude towards the patient this attitude stripped away any association between touch and sensuality. Massage students took up this model and viewed the body dispassionately taking away any connection between touch and eroticism and put distance between themselves and prostitutes. The body as a machine was a very important and highly important strategy for the founders as it was largely involved in proving the legitimacy of the profession. This model has played a major role in defining physiotherapy’s professional identity and it has cemented physiotherapies position among other health care professions. Physiotherapy as a present profession owes its identity, social standing, and authority to the adoption of a certain view of the body that allowed early masseuses to legitimize their …show more content…
Therapeutic touch has been a vital component in the development and definition of physiotherapy practice and continues to be one of the professions principal in distinguishing competencies. It is axiomatic that touch is innately sensual both as a broadly sensory experience, and an experience linked to sexuality. It is also axiomatic that all practitioners of therapeutic touch must demonstrate that they can manage this sensuality if they are to distinguish themselves as physiotherapist/ therapeutic professionals and not be associated with unregulated or morally reprehensible
First experience
During the massage I was focused on not trying to hurt the client as it was my first time working on a female, therefore I felt nervous as well and less confident while working on the client, but after time passed I became more confident while doing the massage and asked more questions and used different massage techniques.
Reflection
I felt nervous therefore messed up a lot on my informed consent, which probably made my client uncomfortable as well because I was …show more content…
This happened because of what was known as the ‘massage scandals of 1894 and the resulting actions of the founders of the Society of Trained Masseuses. Therefore the body-as-machine model was created, the purpose of this model was to create a particular attitude towards the patient this attitude stripped away any association between touch and sensuality. Massage students took up this model and viewed the body dispassionately taking away any connection between touch and eroticism and put distance between themselves and prostitutes. The body as a machine was a very important and highly important strategy for the founders as it was largely involved in proving the legitimacy of the profession. This model has played a major role in defining physiotherapy’s professional identity and it has cemented physiotherapies position among other health care professions. Physiotherapy as a present profession owes its identity, social standing, and authority to the adoption of a certain view of the body that allowed early masseuses to legitimize their …show more content…
Therapeutic touch has been a vital component in the development and definition of physiotherapy practice and continues to be one of the professions principal in distinguishing competencies. It is axiomatic that touch is innately sensual both as a broadly sensory experience, and an experience linked to sexuality. It is also axiomatic that all practitioners of therapeutic touch must demonstrate that they can manage this sensuality if they are to distinguish themselves as physiotherapist/ therapeutic professionals and not be associated with unregulated or morally reprehensible