OBJECTIVES Little is known about the effectiveness of therapeutic massage, one of the most popular complementary medical treatments for neck pain. A randomized controlled trial was conducted to evaluate whether therapeutic massage is more beneficial than a self-care book for patients with chronic neck pain. METHODS Sixty-four such patients were randomized to receive up to 10 massages over 10 ...

KEYWORDS: Massage therapy education, distance learning Greetings, esteemed reader. I have been graciously invited by Executive Editor Dr. Glenn M. Hymel to offer a guest editorial, and he has invited me to speak to one of my favorite topics: education in the massage therapy profession. The Massage Therapy Foundation, as most readers probably know, is dedicated to advancing our profession throug...

This issue of the IJTMB brings a spectrum of research to readers. In the Research Section, you will find a listing of the abstracts of research project posters presented at the recent American Massage Therapy Association 2014 National Convention. These abstracts were peer-reviewed by a committee of Massage Therapy Foundation volunteers. The nine posters cover topics from case reports for severa...

The article, based on the study of scientific literature, analyzes peculiarities physical culture and sports rehabilitation football players aged 20-25 years after surgical intervention ligamentous apparatus knee joint. On basis obtained data, a program joint in adaptation training period was developed substantiated using following means methods: exercises, therapeutic massage cryo-massage, kin...

The Great East Japan Earthquake inflicted immense damage over a wide area of eastern Japan with the consequent tsunami. Department of Traditional Asian Medicine, Tohoku University, started providing medical assistance to the disaster-stricken regions mainly employing traditional Asian therapies.We visited seven evacuation centers in Miyagi and Fukushima Prefecture and provided acupuncture/massa...

Objective: to map the use of massage relieve neonatal pain during procedures performed in Intensive Care Units. Methods: a scoping review conducted 11 data sources, following Joanna Briggs Institute recommendations. The question was: what is knowledge about newborns painful intensive care unit? 12 studies were selected for results. Results: therapeutic positive reducing score on scales, decreas...

Patient comfort is a goal of therapeutic nursing practice and a primary nursing function. Residents in nursing homes have many comfort needs including physical, psychospiritual, sociocultural, and environmental. These comfort needs are addressed by various caregivers including nurses, nursing assistants, and family members. Hand massage is a simple comfort intervention that can be incorporated ...

PURPOSE Our study set out to measure the effect of a specific routine of massage on gait characteristics, range of motion, and spasticity in a person with incomplete spinal cord injury. METHODS This descriptive, pre-post case study, conducted at the outpatient program of a rehabilitation facility, used neuromuscular techniques in massage for a 42-year-old man with incomplete chronic C5 spinal...

INTRODUCTION Blepharitis and meibomian gland dysfunction are chronic inflammatory conditions with overlapping pathophysiology and symptomatology. Both microbial infection and seborrhea contribute to the pathophysiology and both may benefit from treatment with tea tree oil (TTO). We evaluated the therapeutic effect of eyelids scrubbing with TTO in a group of patients with lid margin disease. M...

Reply by Moyer: Pamela Fitch makes good points in response to my recent editorial on affective massage therapy (AMT), and I recall that when I was writing it, I wavered on whether to nominate AMT only as a subfield for research or as a subfield for research and practice. I also had, in addition to Fitch’s letter, a thought-provoking email exchange on that topic with Dr. Lesley Teitelbaum. Limit...