Therapeutic touch (commonly shortened to "TT"), known by some as "non-contact therapeutic touch" (NCTT), is a pseudoscientific energy therapy that practitioners claim promotes healing and reduces pain and anxiety.
Despite its name, it involves no direct contact. It is performed by moving the hands a few inches away from the patient's body to detect and manipulate what they say is the patient's energy field.
Justification for TT is an energy field interaction between two people, aimed at rebalancing or re-patterning the patient's energy fields to promote relaxation and pain relief, and to activate self-healing.

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Adapted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Internet. Accessed on July 15, 2017.