Lower Back Pain is Reduced and Range of Motion Increased After Massage Therapy

Hernandez‐Reif, Maria; Field, Tiffany; Krasnegor, Josh; Theakston, Hillary

doi:10.3109/00207450109149744

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“…In line with the current study, the results of trials (20,21) indicate that massage is effective in reducing pain and functional disability, as well as improving mobility and psychological well-being, in chronic low back pain, especially if accompanied with exercises (20).…”

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Combined Effects of Postural Education, Therapeutic Massage, Segmental Stretching, and Motor Control Exercise in a 19-Year-Old Male with Chronic Back Pain and Kypholordotic Posture: A Case Report

Ibrahim

Akindele

2018

Middle East J Rehabil Health Stud

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Introduction: Sagittal spine malalignment has been linked with a number of health consequences including pain, disability, and suboptimal quality of life. Case Presentation: We present a 19-year-old male with 3 years history of chronic back pain associated with kypholordotic posture. Upon examination, lumbar hyperlordosis and thoracic hyperkyphosis were mainly associated with muscular imbalance around the chest, upper back, and lumbopelvic-hip region. The patient received treatment comprising postural education (PE), therapeutic massage (TM), motor control exercises (MCE), and segmental stretching exercises (SSE) twice a week for 8 weeks. The patient demonstrated a significant improvement in lumbar lordotic (83.80 to 76.30) and thoracic kyphotic (65.20 to 60.60) curves as measured by flexible ruler, back pain (7.0cm to1.0cm) as measured by visual analogue scale, spine ranges of motion (flexion: 5.2cm to 7.5cm; extension: 3.5cm to 4.7cm) as measured by modified Schober's test, and functional disability (46.7% to 20.0%) as measured by modified Oswestry disability index. Conclusions:The results showed that the combination of PE, TM, MCE, and SSE was effective in improving sagittal spine alignment, back pain, spine range of movement, and function.

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Combined Effects of Postural Education, Therapeutic Massage, Segmental Stretching, and Motor Control Exercise in a 19-Year-Old Male with Chronic Back Pain and Kypholordotic Posture: A Case Report

Ibrahim

Akindele

2018

Middle East J Rehabil Health Stud

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“…Range of motion (ROM) of the lumbar spine is currently the only measure included in popular published guidelines for the assessment of impairment associated with low back pain [3]. As such, measures of ROM are frequently employed as the main objective outcome criterion in quantifying the effects of various treatments for back pain [11,18,23,28,32,51]. Nonetheless, the value of objective measures of spinal mobility in assessing dysfunction and in monitoring changes following treatment remains a highly controversial issue within the spine research community.…”

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A prospective study of the interrelationship between subjective and objective measures of disability before and 2 months after lumbar decompression surgery for disc herniation

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“…Some studies demonstrated that massage can modulate pain and increase range of motion [22,23]. It might be appropriate to conduct preperformance massage for athletes with pain or athletes who require greater range of motion to achieve better performance.…”

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Acute Effects of Quick Short - Duration Massage On Vertical Jump; A Crossover Randomised Controlled Trial

Mine¹

2017

PMRD

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massage is often performed in various sports settings [2]. Massage can be conducted in either a passive manner by therapists or an active manner by athletes themselves, using specific apparatus, such as a foam roller [3,4]. Main purposes of preperformance massage include preventing injuries, increasing range of motions, decreasing stiffness and soreness and enhancing athletes' strength, endurance and functional performance [5,6]. Proposed rationales for improved strength and functional performance generally involve the following; increasing blood flow to provide more efficient metabolism for muscles [7] and positive psychological effects, such as mood enhancement and increased perceived performance [8].The research evidence regarding the immediate effects of preperformance massage to improve muscle strength and functional performance is equivocal. In fact, some studies demonstrated that massage might inhibit muscle strength and compromise explosive performance, such as sprinting and vertical jump [2,9,10]. In most studies with negative findings regarding the effects of massage on strength and functional performance, massage tends to be long -duration massage (>10 minutes) [2,9,11]. In reality, however, it is often difficult and impractical for therapists working in teams to perform long-duration massage for every athlete before games.

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Lower Back Pain is Reduced and Range of Motion Increased After Massage Therapy

Cited by 211 publications

References 27 publications

Combined Effects of Postural Education, Therapeutic Massage, Segmental Stretching, and Motor Control Exercise in a 19-Year-Old Male with Chronic Back Pain and Kypholordotic Posture: A Case Report

Combined Effects of Postural Education, Therapeutic Massage, Segmental Stretching, and Motor Control Exercise in a 19-Year-Old Male with Chronic Back Pain and Kypholordotic Posture: A Case Report

A prospective study of the interrelationship between subjective and objective measures of disability before and 2 months after lumbar decompression surgery for disc herniation

Acute Effects of Quick Short - Duration Massage On Vertical Jump; A Crossover Randomised Controlled Trial

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