While research has proven that massage has healing benefits, non-contact therapies such as HT and TT are more controversial. In the medical field, these practices are considered a pseudoscience by many and scientists aren't sure exactly if or how it works. Some believe positive results may be due to the placebo effect.

In touch therapy, practitioners use their hands to manipulate and direct the flow of energy — known as the biofield — throughout your body in order to promote healing and restore your body's ability to heal itself.