Medical Massage
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A Medical Massage is a massage that is a clinical therapy.
- Example(s):
- for cancer palliation (Ernst, 2009).
- …
- See: Massage Therapist.
References
2022
- (Wikipedia, 2022) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_massage Retrieved:2022-1-3.
- Medical massage is outcome-based massage, primarily the application of a specific treatment targeted to the specific problem the patient presents with a diagnosis and are administered after a thorough assessment/evaluation by the medical massage therapist with specific outcomes being the basis for treatment. It is also known as clinical massage or treatment massage.
There are many massage schools and programs that teach medical massage as a technique. Though medical massage is any massage treatment used to treat specific medical conditions. There is no one technique that is medical massage (literary review). Medical massage is taking whatever style of massage the practitioner knows and applying that technique to specific conditions to bring about specific outcomes.
- Medical massage is outcome-based massage, primarily the application of a specific treatment targeted to the specific problem the patient presents with a diagnosis and are administered after a thorough assessment/evaluation by the medical massage therapist with specific outcomes being the basis for treatment. It is also known as clinical massage or treatment massage.
2009
- (Ernst, 2009) ⇒ Edzard Ernst. (2009). “Massage Therapy for Cancer Palliation and Supportive Care: A Systematic Review of Randomised Clinical Trials.” Supportive care in cancer 17, no. 4
- ABSTRACT:
- Introduction: Massage is a popular adjunct to cancer palliation. This systematic review is aimed at critically evaluating all available randomised clinical trials of massage in cancer palliation.
- Discussion: Collectively, they suggest that massage can alleviate a wide range of symptoms: pain, nausea, anxiety, depression, anger, stress and fatigue. However, the methodological quality of the included studies was poor, a fact that prevents definitive conclusions.
- Conclusion: The evidence is, therefore, encouraging but not compelling. The subject seems to warrant further investigations which avoid the limitations of previous studies.
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