TY - JOUR
T1 - Multiple sclerosis patients benefit from massage therapy
AU - Hernandez-Reif, Maria
AU - Field, Tiffany
AU - Field, Tory
AU - Theakston, Hillary
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by an NIMH Research Scientist Award (MH # 00331) and an NIMH Research Grant (#MH46586) to Tiffany Field and a grant from Johnson & Johnson to the Touch Research Institute. The authors wish to thank the participants, massage therapists and physicians who participated in this study.
PY - 1998/7
Y1 - 1998/7
N2 - Twenty-four adults with multiple sclerosis were randomly assigned to a standard medical treatment control group or a massage therapy group that received 45-minute massages twice a week for 5 weeks. The massage group had lower anxiety and less depressed mood immediately following the massage sessions and, by the end of the study, they had improved self-esteem, better body image and image of disease progression, and enhanced social functional status.
AB - Twenty-four adults with multiple sclerosis were randomly assigned to a standard medical treatment control group or a massage therapy group that received 45-minute massages twice a week for 5 weeks. The massage group had lower anxiety and less depressed mood immediately following the massage sessions and, by the end of the study, they had improved self-esteem, better body image and image of disease progression, and enhanced social functional status.
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U2 - 10.1016/S1360-8592(98)80009-0
DO - 10.1016/S1360-8592(98)80009-0
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0010413292
VL - 2
SP - 168
EP - 174
JO - Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies
JF - Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies
SN - 1360-8592
IS - 3
ER -