Tickling to fight disease

[Dandy Jack]

I have often wondered if tickling may have some beneficial uses such as being used as a treatment for some disease.

What if someone is known to have some disease. MS, Cancer, loss of the ability to move muscles properly, Mental Illness etc,

Could it be possible that various tickle sessions can be used and perhaps

improvement in the condition can be seen.

Has this theory ever been tested with any known results.

I do not know. I do think it is possible...

I can see where it can used as some form of medical therapy.

If tickling sessions could be proven to cure anything...such a finding would be

huge.

The body may respond well to healthy doses of tickling.

What do you think...

Dandy Jack

 

[evilwomanhehe]

All that I know is--laughter is the best medicine. Your body produces necessary endorphins during laughter. If you like to be tickled, one might be happier than other people because tickling adds pleasure to one's life.

So--ticklish people should get tickled every day to add happiness to one's life, IMO.

🙂

~Victoria

 

[rhiannon]

Could it be possible that various tickle sessions can be used and perhaps improvement in the condition can be seen.

No. Highly doubt it. If it worked at all, then only for people who actually like being tickled, because you might have a positive influence on their general mood. But since a connection between positive thinking and the cure of diseases is not proven, not even that is for sure.

The vast majority of people hates being tickled and I don't see how making them miserable would cure anything.

 

[badreligion]

The only thing tickling cures is the blues .

 

[GEORGIATKLER]

And sometimes blue balls.....

 

[skelyrata]

I think it is

A good tickle torture session can do a lot more than 20 minutes of aerobics, cardio and weights, if you consider that you are laughing out and breathing in, your heart is pumbing really fast, you are pulling your wrists and ankles against your own weight. On top of that it helps you improve stamina and your own power of resistance by holding the safeword a little longer, and a little longer, and seeing that you can take a lot more tickle torture than you thought it was possible. At the end the level of satisfaction and acomplishment can make you feel that you can face any challenge the life throws at you.

 

[Dandy Jack]

What I was talking about is a Doctor actually using doses of tickling perhaps twice a day to see if over time a patient's condition improves.

Monitor the results, publish the results. And see if tickling can be considered the reason for the patient's improved condition.

I wonder if being ticklish and being tickled can be used for purposes such as curing some type of problem the body has obtained.

Tickling has been used as a form of torture and punishment.

Can it be used as a medicine to aid the body's natural ability to fight disease?


Dandy Jack

 

[rhiannon]

What I was talking about is a Doctor actually using doses of tickling perhaps twice a day to see if over time a patient's condition improves.

To prove that theory you would have to use just tickling to fight the disease. No medication. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't take that chance if I was the one having cancer or MS!

Tickling has been used as a form of torture and punishment.

Not really, no, except in the fantasy of people like us. 🙂

Can it be used as a medicine to aid the body's natural ability to fight disease?

Still highly doubt it.

 

[Dandy Jack]

I just think

that somehow tickling may have a medical and beneficial use.

I do not have the details. I just think the possibility should and

can be explored.

 

[Jagermeistered]

To prove that theory you would have to use just tickling to fight the disease. No medication. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't take that chance if I was the one having cancer or MS!



Not really, no, except in the fantasy of people like us. 🙂



Still highly doubt it.

I agree with rhiannon. Pathology and biology versus psychology and even psychiatry. The hard sciences differentiate. No matter how much you want them to be interconnected.

 

[rhiannon]

tickling may have a medical and beneficial use

How would it for people who dislike being tickled? Which is like at least 75% of the people?

I just think the possibility should and

can be explored.

How? It's impossible to prove that!

 

[miskiduk]

LOL. Be realistic for fuck's sake.
Sure, it would cure me (and probably anyone on the TMF) of feeling a bit 'down in the dumps'. Otherwise, tickling sick people really doesn't seem like the best of ideas. It's kind of up there on the 'list of stupid things to do' with worshipping the moon and touching things with a "wet paint" sign 😀
"Keep taking the tablets" is what I say!

 

[Jagermeistered]

LOL. Be realistic for fuck's sake.
Sure, it would cure me (and probably anyone on the TMF) of feeling a bit 'down in the dumps'. Otherwise, tickling sick people really doesn't seem like the best of ideas. It's kind of up there on the 'list of stupid things to do' with worshipping the moon and touching things with a "wet paint" sign 😀
"Keep taking the tablets" is what I say!

^The true straight forward and blunt answer. Very much agree.

 

[b0xr]

I remember reading something when I was a kid about tickling being used in some way for heart attack victims or to test the heart in some way. It was so long ago that I don't remember the exact content of the article, but tickling was definitly used during medical testing. I believe the article was from the mid 60s from a school science paper I read. I remember it well because there was a picture of a man's face laughing and I was so pissed that it wasn't a woman. There was also a device they used to tickle the foot. It looked like a box you would put the foot into with a nub sticking up to tickle the foot with.

 

[prestidigits]

I have often wondered if tickling may have some beneficial uses....
What do you think...

Dandy Jack

I think it's worth further research!

Volunteers, anyone?

 

[tummytickler69]

ive thought about what if you tickled coma patients

 

[rhiannon]

Try tickling unconscious people. Same result.