| Number of articles: 3 |
| 1. A meaningful relief from suffering experiences of massage in cancer care. |
| Authors: Billhult A, Dahlberg K. |
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| The experience of massage in an oncology ward was the focus of this study. |
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| 2. Benefits of massage therapy for hospitalized patients: a descriptive and qualitative evaluation. |
| Authors: Smith MC, Stallings MA, Mariner S, Burrall M. |
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| CONTEXT: Some acute and long-term care facilities are instituting massage therapy programs to support their patients' health, healing, and quality of life. |
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| 3. 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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