Tondi M. Harrison, PhD, RN, FAAN, is Associate Professor, The Ohio State University College of Nursing, Columbus. Roger Brown, PhD, is Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing. Travis Duffey, LMT, is Licensed Massage Therapist, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio. Corrie Frey, LMT, CIMI, CPMT, is Licensed Massage Therapist, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio. Jacob Bailey, BSN, RN, is Staff Nurse, COPC Ohio Center for Pediatrics, Dublin. Marliese Dion Nist, PhD, RNC, is Postdoctoral Fellow, The Ohio State University College of Nursing, Columbus, Ohio. Lauren Renner, MSN, RN, CPNP, is APRN Clinical Leader, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio. Jill Fitch, MD, is Pediatric Intensivist, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH.
Department of Children and Women's Health, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan. Electronic address: watanabe@sahs.med.osaka-u.ac.jp.
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) during hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) presents unique challenges due to limited access to patients in cardiac arrest (CA) and the distinct physiological condition...
A comprehensive literature search was conducted in PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, and CINAHL using the search string: "(pressure chamber OR decompression OR hyperbaric) AND (cardiac arrest OR cardi...
The search yielded 10,223 publications, with 41 deemed relevant to the topic. Among these, 18 articles (primarily case reports) described CPR or defibrillation in 22 patients undergoing HBOT. The rema...
CPR in the context of HBOT is a rare, yet critical event requiring special considerations. Existing guidelines should be adapted to address these unique circumstances and integrated into regular train...
Background High-quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is associated with improved survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and includes chest compression depth, chest compression rate, and c...
The 2020 American Heart Association guidelines encourage lay rescuers to provide chest compression-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation to simplify the process and encourage cardiopulmonary resuscitatio...
This study will retrieve only randomised and quasi-randomised controlled trials from the Cochrane Library, PubMed, Web of Science and Embase databases. Data on study design, participant characteristic...
This study will evaluate the effect of chest compression-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and provide evidence for cardiopulmonary resuscitation guidelines....
No patient or public entity will be involved in this study. Therefore, the study does not need to be ethically reviewed. The results of the study will be disseminated through peer-reviewed journal pub...
CRD42021295507....
This study aimed to determine whether massage pressure on the target muscles (biceps brachii muscle [BB] and the medial head of the gastrocnemius muscle [MG]) is related to the massage effect (reducin...
Nine healthy participants participated in this study. A physiotherapist massaged the upper arms and lower legs of participants on a rigid desk in a laboratory. Massage was delivered for 10 min with a ...
The BB shear modulus was significantly reduced POST massage. The MG shear modulus significantly reduced POST massage and remained clearly reduced until POST-5. There was a negative correlation between...
Since the spindle (BB) and pennate (MG) muscles have structural differences, our results suggest that these differences may affect the pattern of changes in the shear modulus in response to massage....
Massage pressure is related to the massage effect (reducing muscle stiffness), and its relationships to POST are not related to the differences in the morphologies of the spindle (BB) and pennate musc...
Massage is widely used for neck pain, but its effectiveness remains unclear....
To assess the benefits and harms of massage compared to placebo or sham, no treatment or exercise as an adjuvant to the same co-intervention for acute to chronic persisting neck pain in adults with or...
We searched multiple databases (CENTRAL, MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, Index to Chiropractic Literature, trial registries) to 1 October 2023....
We included randomised controlled trials (RCTs) comparing any type of massage with sham or placebo, no treatment or wait-list, or massage as an adjuvant treatment, in adults with acute, subacute or ch...
We used the standard methodological procedures expected by Cochrane. We transformed outcomes to standardise the direction of the effect (a smaller score is better). We used a partially contextualised ...
We included 33 studies (1994 participants analysed). Selection (82%) and detection bias (94%) were common; multiple trials had unclear allocation concealment, utilised a placebo that may not be credib...
The contribution of massage to the management of neck pain remains uncertain given the predominance of low-certainty evidence in this field. For subacute and chronic neck pain (closest to 12 weeks fol...
The purpose of this study was to compare the short-term effects of connective tissue massage (CTM) and classic massage (CM) on pain, functional and emotional status, and menstrual complaints in women ...
Women with PD were randomly assigned to 2 groups: CTM (n = 19) and CM (n = 19). CTM or CM was applied 5 days a week from the estimated date of ovulation to the onset of the next menstruation. The pain...
In the postintervention period, both groups had decreased menstrual pain intensity and duration, drug use, and FEDS scores (P < .001). Pain duration and FEDS-functional scores decreased more in the CT...
CTM and CM improved menstrual pain and functional and emotional status, and decreased drug use. Moreover, CTM was superior in improving pain duration, functional status, and sleeplessness compared wit...
Temporomandibular joint disorder (TMD) is a common condition affecting the masticatory muscles and joint mobility....
The primary objective was to compare the effects of massage therapy alone and massage therapy combined with post-isometric relaxation exercises in patients with TMD for pain and maximal mouth opening....
Assessor-blinded randomized controlled trial....
Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Chaudhry Muhammad Akram Dental Hospital, Lahore Medical and Dental Hospital....
Temporomandibular joint disorder patients....
Group A (n = 23) received conventional treatment including massage and therapeutic exercises consecutively for 2 weeks. Group B (n = 23) received post-isometric relaxation technique along with convent...
The main outcome measures were pain and maximal mouth opening. Pain was measured using the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and maximal mouth opening (MMO) was measured using the TheraBite Scale....
Both groups demonstrated significant improvements in pain and MMO scores post-treatment. However, Group B (massage with post-isometric relaxation exercises) showed significantly better outcomes compar...
The results suggest that massage therapy combined with post-isometric relaxation is more effective than massage therapy alone in managing pain and improving mouth opening in TMD patients. The study pr...
NCT05810831. Date of registration/First submission: 15 March 2023....
Massage has been used as a treatment for musculoskeletal pain throughout history and across cultures, and yet most meta-analyses have only shown weak support for the efficacy of massage. There is a re...
The aim of this study was to explore what experienced orthopaedic massage therapists consider to be the aspects of their work that contribute to effectiveness....
Semi-structured interviews were conducted via Zoom with six experienced orthopaedic massage therapists in Australia....
The interviews were analysed using inductive thematic analysis, seeking insights that might be practically applied, rather than theory-driven interpretations....
The participants focused on the underlying differences between clients, between therapists, and between treatments, and clearly indicated that this concept of "difference" was foundational to their vi...
Participants did not identify specific techniques or modalities as "effective" or not. Rather, a therapist's ability to provide effective treatment was based on an iterative process of treatment and a...
The physical demands and repetitive movements performed by massage therapists during a treatment increase the risk for work-related musculoskeletal disorders. While massage therapy meets the level of ...
Massage therapy is an evidence-based approach for pain management. Information regarding its utilization in the Military Health System (MHS) is lacking. The goal of this study is to evaluate massage t...
Medical record data of adult TRICARE Prime enrollees receiving outpatient massage therapy (Current Procedural Terminology codes: 97124 and 97140) from June 1, 2021, to May 31, 2023, were extracted fro...
Of patients who received massage therapy (n = 179,215), the median number of visits was 2 (interquartile range 1 to 4), the median age was 32 years (interquartile range 25 to 40), they were mostly ass...
While massage therapy codes are documented frequently, massage therapists do not commonly provide massage therapy relative to nonmassage therapist providers. Access to massage therapists may be stymie...
