Survey: Back massages reduce surgery pain
Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, December 20, 2007
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New research has found that a back massage can lessen the anxiety and pain of a patient recovering from surgery.
During the study, which was conducted at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System in Michigan, physicians studied 605 patients around age 64 who had undergone major chest or abdominal surgery. Over five days following surgery, patients were randomly assigned to one of three groups. The first group received routine care including pain-killing drugs, the second group was given pain-killers plus a daily 20-minute massage, and the third group received painkillers and emotional support from a massage therapist (but no massage).
According to researchers, patients in the massage group became less anxious following treatment; additionally, these patients experienced a faster decrease in pain intensity as compared to patients in the other groups.
Source: Channel 4 News
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