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Liddle Kidz® is the industry leader and recognized gold standard for touch therapy education & turn-key hospital-based program development, training and implementation across the globe. EVIDENCE-BASED. We are dedicated to providing evidence-based touch therapy education, and certification to further enhance the lives of infants and children ...

That's the description of their site at liddlekidz.org. I saw no proof of pedophilia but it certainly sounds like the kind of thing that would attract pedos. So does teaching though.

Touch therapy belongs to the broad category of energy healing, which includes things acupuncture, tai chi, and reiki (https://www.healthline.com/health/touch-therapy)

Yikes.

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acupuncture, tai chi, and reiki

Interesting. I am not sure what this has to do with kids, but I know addults who've tried these in several countries, though also in the US. None of them are creepy, even for kids, and are considered alternatives to standardized medicine. They appeal to those of us who hate Big Pharma.

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I didn't think they were all that effective.

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They can be good for approaches to general health, though one would want good drugs for anything serious.

Tai chi = is an East Asian / Taoist martial art that's good for physical health. Kids would benefit from it.

Acupuncture or acupressure = an ancient method of manipulating certain nerves, to temporarily limit pain and help other areas of the body receive more attention and thus heal in the process. A good massage can also help (by adults, not kids)

Reiki = a Japanese approach to a kind of acupressure and sensory body awareness that I know very little about. I doubt it's useful to someone who doesn't believe in it.

(I worked in a healthfood store a hundred years ago, where I learned about these options.)

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I'm doing something called gua sha, a Chinese scraping/massage that's supposed to help break down scar tissue. It seems to help. Their tools are handy for pain that's hard to reach, like under the knee cap.

They're all based on Chi energy, and I don't believe in that, but when there's a massage component, as you mentioned that can be very helpful.