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{{Infobox Alternative Medicine | image=Yin and Yang.svg | claims = Healing can be achieved through manipulation of complementary (or polarized) energies.|topics = [[Energy (esotericism)]], [[Energy medicine]]|origyear = 1940s| origprop = [[Randolph Stone]] | laterprop = [[Pierre Pannetier]] | seealso= [[Reiki]], [[Therapeutic touch]]}}
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'''Polarity therapy''' is an [[alternative medicine]] health system developed in the 1940s by Doctor [[Randolph Stone]].<ref name=InteliHealth>{{cite web|url=http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/8513/34968/358862.html |title=Polarity |accessdate=2008-12-27 |date=2008-04-29 |publisher=Natural Standard }}</ref> Proponents claim health benefits can be achieved through manipulation of what they describe as complementary (or polarized) forces, a form of [[energy (esotericism)|energy]] currently unknown to science.<ref name='QW'>{{cite web|url=http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/massage.html |title=Massage Therapy: riddled with quackery |accessdate=2008-12-27 |last=Barrett |first=Stephen |publisher=QuackWatch }}</ref> There is no conclusive [[empirical evidence]] for the efficacy of the technique or its underlying ideas.<ref name=InteliHealth /><ref name=QW />

==Beliefs==
Polarity therapy is a synthesis of ancient Eastern and [[alternative medicine]] health care ideas, centered on the concept of a [[Energy (esotericism)|human energy field]].<ref name="Oschman">Oschman, J.: Energy Medicine, The Scientific Basis, page 10. (Churchill Livingstone, 2000).</ref> Using touch, verbal interaction, exercise, nutrition and other methods,<ref>American Polarity Therapy Association: Standards for Practice (Fourth Edition), page 2. APTA, 2003.</(contracted; show full)
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