Impact of massage therapy in the treatment of linked pathologies: Scoliosis, costovertebral dysfunction, and thoracic outlet syndrome

Adaptation of the CARE Guidelines for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork Publications: Efforts To Improve the Impact of Case Reports

“…TMB case reports published in peer reviewed journals are also an excellent resource for use as examples when preparing a TMB case report. In the past decade, TMB case reports have been published on ankylosing spondylitis (16) , cervical degenerative disk disease (17) , erythromelalgia (18) , lumbar fusion (19) , Lyme disease (20) , Morton's neuroma (21) , narcolepsy (13) , patellofemoral pain syndrome (14) , rheumatoid arthritis (22) , spinal cord injury (23) , and temporomandibular joint dysfunction (12) in the International Journal of Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (IJTMB), and on abdominal pain (24) , diabetic neuropathy (25) , dwarfism (26) , fibular hemimelia (27) , low back pain (28) , lumbar spondylolisthesis (29) , and scoliosis (30) in The Journal of Movement and Bodywork Therapies. New case reports are published periodically in both of these Journals and both consider the publication of case reports as valuable contributions to their Journal and the TMB field (31)(32)(33) .…”