What used to be called therapeutic touch, before the lawyers got involved.

Emily Rosa, at 9 years of age, conceived and executed a study on therapeutic touch.

Then she glanced at the television screen in her home where her mother was watching a videotape about therapeutic touch.

Suddenly, Emily piped up, saying she had a way to test the premise of therapeutic touch, her mother said.

Other researchers say no reliable evidence proves that practitioners of therapeutic touch can heal patients.

He said the committee had decided that no one even knew how to test the basic assumptions behind therapeutic touch.

But, he added, "Of course it was - those are the people who want to put therapeutic touch to the test."

You can safely use therapeutic touch along with conventional medical treatments.

There is no known risk in adding therapeutic touch to your medical treatment.

No studies have proved that therapeutic touch works for treating any type of disease.