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  • Physiotherapy
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Phenomenology

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  • Therapeutic touch in physiotherapy is under renewed debate.
  • The COVID-19 pandemic and rise of virtual technologies have increased uncertainty.
  • Existing philosophies of touch are limited, failing to account for existential and socio-cultural aspects.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To theorize how touch operates and becomes therapeutic in physiotherapy.
  • To critique existing approaches to therapeutic touch.
  • To propose machine ontology as a more robust framework for understanding touch.

Main Methods:

  • Literature review and critique of existing philosophical approaches to touch.
  • Application of Gilles Deleuze's machine ontology to physiotherapy.
  • Theoretical analysis of touch within a broader cosmic and existential context.

Main Results:

  • Current physiotherapy approaches to touch are paradoxically reductive and vague.
  • Existing bio-physical and inter-subjective models are insufficient.
  • Machine ontology offers a more inclusive and comprehensive philosophy of touch.

Conclusions:

  • A new philosophical framework is needed for therapeutic touch in physiotherapy.
  • Machine ontology provides a robust alternative to current limited approaches.
  • This approach opens radical new possibilities for physical therapies.