Gently stroking babies could provide effective pain relief before medical procedures
- December 28, 2018
- 0
Researchers found that gently stroking a baby seems to reduce activity in the infant brain associated with painful experiences. Their results, appearing December 17 in the journal Current Biology, suggest that lightly brushing an infant at a certain speed–of approximately 3 centimeters per second–could provide effective pain relief before clinically necessary medical procedures.
Source link
