Art of Body Experience is a privately owned and operated massage therapy practice.
Research – Oncology Massage
Touch, Caring, and Cancer: randomized controlled trial of a multimedia caregiver education program.
Massage caregivers showed significant gains in confidence, comfort, and self-efficacy using touch and massage as forms of caregiving. . . . Multimedia instruction in touch and massage methods may offer family members a viable means of enhancing self-efficacy and satisfaction in caregiving while decreasing patient pain, depression, and other symptoms. Family members may be able to learn and apply safe and simple methods that increase patient comfort and reduce distress.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23262808
Massage in supportive cancer care.
To review recent findings on the utilization of massage by cancer patients, including evidence of effects in supportive and palliative cancer care, current understanding of safety considerations and adaptations needed, education of professional and family caregivers to provide this form of support, and guidelines for oncology nurses in referring patients. . . . . .there is now significant recognition of the potential contributions of massage in supportive care, as well as greater understanding of the modifications needed in offering massage to cancer patients.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22281309
Role of massage therapy in cancer care.
Abstract
The care of patients with cancer not only involves dealing with its symptoms but also with complicated information and uncertainty; isolation; and fear of disease progression, disease recurrence, and death. Some large cancer centers in the United States have started to integrate massage therapy into conventional settings, based on these reviews. Improvements for patients using massage therapy include relaxation, sleep, and immune system responses and in the relief of their fatigue, pain, anxiety, and nausea.
Research is the continual process of using a variety of methods and variables to achieve desired results. Some research will not show this result. The research Art Of Body Experience has listed is not suggesting this is the best or only research available, only a sample.
