By Grant Jewell Rich PhD NCTMB
The 1st textual content of its variety to supply evidence-based examine on therapeutic massage remedy. This much-needed quantity provides massage-related examine on: tension (post-traumatic pressure sickness, consuming problems, melancholy, abuse), spinal wire accidents, improving development (pregnancy and infancy), soreness relief (rheumatoid arthritis, again discomfort, migraine, and fibromyalgia), pediatrics, the aged, expanding emplyee delight (chair massage), bettering cognition (alertness, autism), and immunity (HIV, cancer).
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But the rationale for this strategy assumes that a less active treatment is being compared with one that is more active. How much more active is unknown. If both treatments are active to a similar degree, the null hypothesis can appear to be true when in fact both interventions are effective. Any effects attributed to the intervention tested are wrongly assumed to be due to nonspecific effect, when each intervention may produce effects through other factors that have yet to be identified. However, this strategy is a useful one at present because so little is known regarding the magnitude of the difference, if any, between skilled and unskilled touch.
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