Therapeutic touch is a widely used nursing practice rooted in mysticism but alleged to have a scientific basis. Practitioners of therapeutic touch claim to treat many medical conditions by using their hands to manipulate a human energy field perceptible above the patient's skin. A study that was conducted by a nine year old child and it got published in this journal became the youngest person to ever be published in a peer reviewed scientific journal. There are still plenty of practitioners of therapeutic touch in hospitals today.