OBJECTIVE Pain is multi-dimensional and may be better addressed through a holistic, biopsychosocial approach. Massage therapy is commonly practiced among patients seeking pain management; however, its efficacy is unclear. This systematic review and meta-analysis is the first to rigorously assess the quality of the evidence for massage therapy's efficacy in treating pain, function-related, and h...

Objective: Cancer treatment is reported to be stressful, and patients diagnosed with hematologic cancers often exhibit higher levels of anxiety and emotional distress than individuals with other malignancies. Management of these symptoms in patients with hematologic cancer presents significant challenges, as many of them are in and out of the hospital while undergoing high dose chemotherapy. On...

Prematurity and poor weight gaining are important causes for neonatal hospitalization. The present study aimed to investigate the role of medium-chain triglyceride (MCT) oil via massage therapy as a supplementary nutritional method on the weight gain of Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU)-hospitalized neonates. This randomized clinical trial performed among 121 stable premature neonates hospit...

This study aims to identify the implementation of various infant massage therapies in neonates reduce bilirubin levels using scoping review method. The research method used this is a that follows JBI methodology guidelines with searches conducted several databases, namely PubMed, Web Science, EMBASE, and Google Scholar. results showed 12 articles involving 665 five countries, nine randomized co...

the term massage comes from the french verb” masser” which means to rub. in greek, it comes from the word “masso” which means to rub with the hands. massage therapy has been very common among different nations since antiquity. in iranian traditional medicine, the word “dalk” has been used with the meaning of massage. among various functions known for giving massage that used for the athletes re...

background : studying women’s quality of life, we come across some harmful effects that factor such as dysmenorrhea caused by endometriosis leaves on their lives, their ability to work, their familial relations and their self-confidence. this we find a much imperative issue. due to the repeated medical follow-ups and the side effects of medical therapies and endometriosis surgeries, many patien...