The existential experiences of receiving soft tissue massage in palliative home care—an intervention

Cronfalk, Berit Seiger; Strang, Peter; Ternestedt, Britt‐Marie; Friedrichsen, Maria

doi:10.1007/s00520-008-0575-1

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“…Qualitative data have been published for a number of body awareness-enhancing approaches including body awareness therapy as a form of physical therapy[19,28,58,59], qigong and body scan[60], massage[61], breath therapy[18], body-oriented psychotherapy[4], and Rosen Method Bodywork[62]. The data were collected in patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain conditions[18,19,28,59,62], cancer[58,61], sexual abuse PTSD[4] and by interviewing a qigong master[60]. Each of these studies confirms several of the points that emerged in our study.…”

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Body Awareness: a phenomenological inquiry into the common ground of mind-body therapies

Mehling

Wrubel

Daubenmier

et al. 2011

Philos Ethics Humanit Med

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Enhancing body awareness has been described as a key element or a mechanism of action for therapeutic approaches often categorized as mind-body approaches, such as yoga, TaiChi, Body-Oriented Psychotherapy, Body Awareness Therapy, mindfulness based therapies/meditation, Feldenkrais, Alexander Method, Breath Therapy and others with reported benefits for a variety of health conditions. To better understand the conceptualization of body awareness in mind-body therapies, leading practitioners and teaching faculty of these approaches were invited as well as their patients to participate in focus groups. The qualitative analysis of these focus groups with representative practitioners of body awareness practices, and the perspectives of their patients, elucidated the common ground of their understanding of body awareness. For them body awareness is an inseparable aspect of embodied self awareness realized in action and interaction with the environment and world. It is the awareness of embodiment as an innate tendency of our organism for emergent self-organization and wholeness. The process that patients undergo in these therapies was seen as a progression towards greater unity between body and self, very similar to the conceptualization of embodiment as dialectic of body and self described by some philosophers as being experienced in distinct developmental levels.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Body Awareness: a phenomenological inquiry into the common ground of mind-body therapies

Mehling

Wrubel

Daubenmier

et al. 2011

Philos Ethics Humanit Med

299

269

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“…In Sweden, the term TM is used to cover different forms of light massage involving the skin. These forms of massage are characterized by gentle touches of the skin involving light pressure effleurage and long, calm stroking movements intended to increase the well-being [ 48 ], pleasure [ 49 ] and relaxation [ 35 ] of the recipients.…”

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Endocannabinoids and related lipids in blood plasma following touch massage: a randomised, crossover study

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BackgroundThe endocannabinoid system is involved in the regulation of stress and anxiety. In a recent study, it was reported that short-term changes in mood produced by a pleasant ambience were correlated with changes in the levels of plasma endocannabinoids and related N-acylethanolamines (Schrieks et al. PLoS One 10: e0126421, 2015). In the present study, we investigated whether stress reduction by touch massage (TM) affects blood plasma levels of endocannabinoids and related N-acylethanolamines.ResultsA randomized two-session crossover design for 20 healthy participants was utilised, with one condition that consisted of TM and a rest condition as control. TM increased the perceived pleasantness rating of the participants, and both TM and rest reduced the basal anxiety level as assessed by the State scale of the STAI-Y inventory. However, there were no significant effects of either time (pre- vs. post-treatment measures) as main effect or the interaction time x treatment for the plasma levels of the endocannabinoids anandamide and 2-arachidonoylglycerol or for eight other related lipids. Four lipids showed acceptable relative reliabilities, and for two of these (linoleoyl ethanolamide and palmitoleoyl ethanolamide) a significant correlation was seen between the TM-related change in levels, calculated as (post-TM value minus pre-TM value) − (post-rest value minus pre-rest value), and the corresponding TM-related change in perceived pleasantness.ConclusionsIt is concluded that in the participants studied here, there are no overt effects of TM upon plasma endocannabinoid levels. Possible associations of related N-acylethanolamines with the perceived pleasantness should be investigated further.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13104-015-1450-z) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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“…Billhult et al (2009) evaluated the effects of light massage (0·0090 kg/cm 2 pressure) on physiological outcome parameters, and concluded that light massage may have short-term effects on systolic blood pressure (SBP) and heart rate. Other studies of massage described as 'light', 'tactile', 'soft', or 'gentle' reported altered emotions after massage treatments (Andersson et al, 2009;Cronfalk et al, 2009;Henricson et al, 2009). The next step after evaluating existing evidence about the intervention was to identify or develop theories about how the intervention works.…”

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Touch massage: a pilot study of a complex intervention

Lindgren

Lehtipalo

Winsö

et al. 2013

Nursing in Critical Care

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The existential experiences of receiving soft tissue massage in palliative home care—an intervention

Abstract: Soft tissue massage appears to be an appreciated source of support to dying patients in palliative home care. The method is easy to comprehend and relatively short (25 min) which may imply that it is a suitable complement in nursing care for this patient group.

Cited by 30 publications

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Body Awareness: a phenomenological inquiry into the common ground of mind-body therapies

Body Awareness: a phenomenological inquiry into the common ground of mind-body therapies

Endocannabinoids and related lipids in blood plasma following touch massage: a randomised, crossover study

Touch massage: a pilot study of a complex intervention

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