Abstracts from the Poster Session of the 2017 American Massage Therapy Association National Conventions from the Poster Session of the 2017 American Massage Therapy Association National Convention maSSagE For BrEaSt CaNCEr SurvivorS: PrESENtiNg EvidENCE aNd idENtiFyiNg oPPortuNitiES Emiliana Bomfim, BScN, MSc, PhD (cand), Kalyani Premkumar, MD, PhD Introduction: Although massage therapy (MT) ha...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this 2-study research project was to measure the physiologic effect of the M technique (see Appendix for description) on the brain using single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and compare it to conventional massage therapy. METHODS In the first study, 4 participants received 1 M technique session. Each participant was injected through the intravenous cannula ...