Massage Therapy
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Affective Massage Therapy
In many ways, massage therapy (MT) research is still in its early stages. By the early 1990s, only a handful of researchers had conducted well-designed MT research studies. Some of these went unpublished (for example: Levin SR. Acute effects of massage on the stress response. Master's thesis, probably because there were fewer places to publish MT research then, but a few other studies concerned...
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Massage therapy is older than recorded time, and rubbing was the primary form of medicine until the pharmaceutical revolution of the 1940s. Popularized again as part of the alternative medicine movement, massage therapy has recently received empirical support for facilitating growth, reducing pain, increasing alertness, diminishing depression, and enhancing immune function. In this article stud...
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BACKGROUND Clinical reasoning has long been a valuable tool for health care practitioners, but it has been under-researched in the field of massage therapy. Case reports have been a useful method for exploring the clinical reasoning process in various fields of manual therapy and can provide a model for similar research in the field of massage therapy. A diagnostically challenging case concerni...
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At first glance, the two research studies featured in this issue of the International Journal of Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (IJTMB) are not much alike. The study by Chunco (1) , which took top honors in the Massage Therapy Foundation's 2010 Practitioner Case Report Contest (2) , examines a single massage therapy (MT) recipient who has a distinct clinical condition, and does not rely on sp...
متن کاملThe safety of massage therapy.
OBJECTIVES After many years out of the limelight, massage therapy is now experiencing a revival. The aim of this systematic review is to evaluate its potential for harm. METHODS Computerized literature searches were carried out in four databases. All articles reporting adverse effects of any type of massage therapy were retrieved. Adverse effects relating to massage oil or ice were excluded. ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Integrative Cancer Therapies
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1534-7354,1552-695X
DOI: 10.1177/153473540200100414