Therapeutic Sensations: A New Unifying Concept

Figure 1

Somatosensory qualities of therapeutic sensations in various interventions (outer ring) and their average (centre). Each word cloud represents the descriptor profile of an intervention with relative descriptor frequency encoded by font size; that is, larger words are more commonly used than smaller ones. For each intervention, the centre of the cloud shows the most common descriptor. There is a broad similarity between the interventions regarding their therapeutic sensations as evidenced by the most common descriptors “tingling,” “warm,” “fullness,” “soreness,” “heaviness,” “numbness,” “pressure,” and “dull pain” appearing in most of the word clouds.