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hand warming
psychospiritual approaches
definition
image: Have patient visualize bringing heat to the hands and feeling the sensation of warmth in the hands. This facilitates peripheral vasodilation, and is also a good indicator of sympathetic tone. It results in vascular tone not just from the shifting of blood, but also actually normalizes sympathetic homeostasis via the hypothalamus. (Korn, p. 177)
uses: angina pectoris, Raynaud's phenomena, migraine, vasospastic diseases
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