| Number of articles: 8 |
| 1. Benefits of massage therapy and use of a doula during labor and childbirth. |
| Author: Keenan P. |
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| This article reviews the most recent literature on touch support and one-to-one support during labor and childbirth. |
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| 2. Does light pressure effleurage reduce pain and anxiety associated with genetic amniocentesis? A randomized clinical trial. |
| Authors: Fischer RL, Bianculli KW, Sehdev H, Hediger ML. |
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| OBJECTIVE: To determine if light pressure effleurage (leg rubbing) during genetic amniocentesis reduces procedure-related pain and anxiety. |
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| 3. Labor pain is reduced by massage therapy. |
| Authors: Field T, Hernandez-Reif M, Taylor S, Quintino O, Burman I. |
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| Twenty-eight women were recruited from prenatal classes and randomly assigned to receive massage in addition to coaching in breathing from their partners during labor, or to receive coaching in breathing alone (a technique learned during prenatal classes). |
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| 4. Length of stay and medication use in hysterectomy patients treated with a single massage treatment |
| Authors: Dudley G, McGrath KN, Pheley AM |
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| Forty-one women (mean age 44 years, S. |
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| 5. Mastectomy, body image and therapeutic massage: a qualitative study of women's experience. |
| Author: Bredin M. |
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| Despite the wealth of literature concerning the impact of breast loss on a woman's body image, sexual and psychological adjustment, there have been few studies within the medical and nursing literature directly quoting a woman's private perspective; how in her words she experiences her changed body. |
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| 6. Pregnant women benefit from massage therapy. |
| Authors: Field T, Hernandez-Reif M, Hart S, Theakston H, Schanberg S, Kuhn C. |
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| Twenty-six pregnant women were assigned to a massage therapy or a relaxation therapy group for 5 weeks. |
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| 7. Premenstrual symptoms are relieved by massage therapy. |
| Authors: Hernandez-Reif M, Martinez A, Field T, Quintero O, Hart S, Burman I. |
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| Twenty-four women meeting Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th edn; DSM-IV) criteria for premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PDD) were randomly assigned to a massage therapy or a relaxation therapy group. |
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| 8. The effect of abdominal massage on the onset of epidural blockade in laboring women. |
| Authors: Parke TJ, Kinsella SM. |
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