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research updates: massage

Below are short extracts from research updates about this subject - select more to read each item.

Issue 118

HIRAKAWA and co-workers, Department of Geriatrics, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Aichi, Japan, y.hirakawa@k8.dion.ne.jp, have evaluated massage therapy in the rehabilitation of bed-ridden elderly patients.... more

Issue 109

MUELLER-OERLINGHAUSEN and colleagues, Kliniken im Theodor-Wenzel-Werk, Chefarzt Abt. Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Berlin, bmoe@zedat.fu-berlin.de, have described the effects of slow massage on depressed patients.... more

Issue 103

HOWATSON and VAN SOMEREN, School of Life Sciences, Kingston University, Kingston-upon-Thames, UK, k972725@kingston.ac.uk, have explored the effects of ice massage on exercise-induced muscle damage.... more

SODEN and co-workers, Princess Alice Hospice, Esher, Surrey, UK, pkteash@hotmail.com, have conducted a randomized controlled trial of aromatherapy massage in a hospice setting.... more

Issue 103 cont'd

WALACH and co-workers, Department of Environmental Medicine and Hospital Hygiene, University Hospital Freiburg, Hugstetterstrasse 55, D-79106 Freiburg, Germany, walach@ukl.uni-freiburg.de, report on a randomized trial of massage therapy in chronic pain.... more

Issue 101

GALLOWAY and WATT, Department of Sports Studies, University of Stirling, Stirling\FK9 4LA, Scotland, UK, s.d.r.galloway@stir.ac.uk, have quantified the massage provision by physiotherapists at major athletic events between 1987 and 1998.... more

Issue 100

MOYER and colleagues, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820-6990, USA, have performed a meta-analysis of massage therapy research.... more

Issue 74

HERNANDEZ-REIF and colleagues, Touch Research Institutes, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida 33101, USA, examined whether the distress of children with severe burns could be reduced by massage therapy to non-burned body parts.... more

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