Primary Massage Using One-Finger Twining Manipulation for Treatment of Infantile Muscular Torticollis

Abstract

PMTMOF produced more obvious curative treatment effects in infantile muscular torticollis than conventional tuina manipulation and could effectively shorten treatment time and avoid sequelae due to delayed healing.

Tui Na (or Tuina) Massage: A Minireview of Pertinent Literature, 1970-2017

“…Tuina is a well-recognized traditional Chinese massage therapy around the world and has innumerable clinical indications that are based on rigorous research evidence gathered through open and comparative randomized controlled clinical trials, systematic reviews and metaanalyses [1,5,8,13,[17][18][19][20][21][22][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34]. Furthermore, most of clinical research in which Tuina is used either alone or in conjunction with other CAM or conventional medicine reported positive results.…”

“…Tuina massage has many clinical applications and has been used safely in a variety of diseases with good outcome. Its clinical indications and contraindications are well recognized and reported in various studies [4,5,[22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34]. Tuina is reported to have good safety profile, and most of the randomized controlled clinical trials along with systematic reviews and meta-analyses have reported no adverse effects [1,4,8,[13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23].…”

“…Other indications for Tuina combined with or without other CAM treatments or conventional medications include infantile diarrhea, nausea and vomiting, chronic fatigue syndrome, cancer-related hiccup, headache, migraine, scapulohumeral periarthritis, anxiety disorder, depression, insomnia, irritable bowel syndrome, premenstrual syndrome, flatus and bowel movement problems (constipation including induced by antipsychotic medications is relieved and shortened by massage), breast, lung and other cancers, other GIT discomfort including cancer, ADHD symptoms, sciatica and muscle spasm, cervical radiculopathy, essential hypertension, sacroiliac joint injury, infant eczema, improve lactation, pain symptoms, infantile anorexia, birth brachial plexus injury, infantile muscular torticollis and disc protrusion/herniation [4,18,22,[24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34]. Overall, Tuina massage in conjunction with other traditional Chinese therapies and conventional medicines is used in many physical and psychiatric conditions with good outcome; however, the quality component of these studies remains a concern of most researchers.…”

Congenital Muscular Torticollis: An Overview

“…Other physical therapy modalities for the SCI treatment include massage of tight neck muscles and subcutaneous tissues which increases pain-free range of motion, joint mobilization, myofascial release, craniosacral therapies and therapeutic taping [13,24,25]. …”

Effectiveness and safety of massage in the treatment of the congenital muscular torticollis

“…Tuina therapy has unique advantages in clinical practice due to its features of green safety, precise curative effect, and high patient compliance. [ 20 , 21 ] In 2018, the APTA Pediatric Physical Therapy Society (APPT) supported the update of CMT's clinical practice guidelines (CPGs), and PTS also recommended manual traction as the preferred treatment for CMT[2]. In addition, in many published clinical studies on massage treatment of children with CMT, most studies have shown that massage is a reliable method of treating CMT.…”