Therapeutic Sensations: A New Unifying Concept

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Therapeutic sensations can be broadly classified into three different categories based on the most common verbal descriptors. Since sensory physiology and perception psychology may differ between categories, such classification can inform future studies on the mechanism behind therapeutic sensations and their putative therapeutic role. There may be further categories (e.g., tactile and visceral) that have gone unnoticed due to the relative lack of descriptor-based questionnaires for these domains.