The Use of Massage Therapy for Reducing Pain, Anxiety, and Depression in Oncological Palliative Care Patients: A Narrative Review of the Literature

Falkensteiner, Maria; Mantovan, Franco; Müller, Irene; Them, Christa

doi:10.5402/2011/929868

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“…Foot massage has also been found to have an effect on the reduction of lower limb edema in pregnancy (Coban & Sirin, 2010), decreased anxiety and depression in palliative care (Puthusseril, 2006), decreased agitation in dementia patients (Moyle, Johnston, & O'Dwyer, 2011 ), as well as decreased pain, depression, anxiety, stress, and weakness in cancer patients (Cassileth & Vickers, 2004;Quattrin et al, 2006;Falkensteiner et al, 2011;Kim & Oh, 2011). This study finding in line with Hayes and Cox'x's study found that a significant reduction of Mean Arterial Pressure (MAP) of 25 patients at Intensive Care Unit (ICU) after foot massage (Smith et al, 2009).…”

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Foot Massage Modification to Reduce Blood Pressure in Pregnant Woman with Preeclampsia

2018

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The Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) in Indonesia remains high, including in West Java province. One of the MMR causes is preeclampsia (24%). Currently, the management of preeclampsia is focused on pharmacological therapy. Preeclampsia is characterized by high blood pressure. Some studies revealed that non-pharmacological therapy was effective in dealing high blood pressure including foot massage. Foot message has benefits both physiologically and psychologically. However limited study applied this massage among pregnant women with preeclamsia. The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of as a complementary therapy: foot massage to reduce of blood pressure among pregnant women with preeclampsia. The study applied quasi experimental design with time series approach. The samples were chosen using consecutive sampling technique. This study involved 30 pregnant women with preeclampsia. There were two steps of data collection. First, respondents' blood pressure was measured by researchers without any interventions for 6 days. Second, the 7th -12th respondents had 20 minutes message, and observed blood pressure at the first minute before massage (pr-etest), and the 30th minutes after massage (post-test). Data were analyzed using Friedman Test. The result showed that there were no significant differences of mean systolic and diastolic blood pressure between pre-test and post-test (p> 0.05) in control period. Whereas, in the treatment period showed that there were a significant differences of mean systolic blood pressure between pre-test and post-test on the seventh day until twelfth day (p < 0.05). While, the significantly differences in mean of diastolic blood pressure between pre-test and post-test were present during the eighth until twelfth in treatment period (p < 0.05). This study revealed that there were significant differences in decreasing of blood pressure among pregnant women with preeclampsia after treatment by foot massage. The foot massage techniques can be used as one of the interventions to lower blood pressure in pregnant women with preeclampsia, however further research is needed to support the evidence based for nursing intervention especially in complementary therapies.

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“…Study literatures showed that foot massage in different points of massage and and times effected different blood pressure in the treatment group (Falkensteiner, Mantovan, Müller, & Them, 2011). However, there is no a study that assess the effectiveness of foot massage in pregnant women with preeclampsia.…”

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Foot Massage Modification to Reduce Blood Pressure in Pregnant Woman with Preeclampsia

2018

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“…It provides a patient with comfort and ease and promotes the quality of life (16,(30)(31)(32). Increasing trust and safety among patients is easily accepted by them (25), a fact which leads to more acceptances of therapies and cooperation on patients' side (33).…”

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“…The only meta-analysis was the study conducted by Lee et al (24), and the rest of them were reviews (25)(26)(27). Although the year of study, inclusion and exclusion criteria, and the number of reviewed papers were different, the results of all four studies indicated that massage therapy could be useful as an effective non-pharmacological method to control pains in patients with cancer.…”

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Massage Therapy in Patients With Cancer Pain: A Review on Palliative Care

Miladinia

Baraz

Zarea

et al. 2016

Jundishapur J Chronic Dis Care

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Introduction: Cancer-related pain (CRP) and its treatments are common and the scariest problems that patients with cancer fear and negatively affect their quality of life. Despite medical intervention, the pain of cancer still remains a clinical problem. Thus, the use of complementary medicine methods such as massage therapy is essential to control pain in the patients. Methodology:It was a review type study limited to national and international studies from 1995 to 2015. Searching processes were completed by electronic databases and search engines. Finally, based on inclusion and exclusion criteria as well as the elimination of duplicate studies, nine articles were selected for final review among which five were clinical trials and four were review or metaanalysis articles. Results:In all five clinical trials, massage therapy reduced pain of patients with cancer, which reflects the positive effects of massage therapy in adult patients with cancer. In addition, although various methods of massage therapy were employed, with short-term and long-term periods, it still had a positive impact. Meanwhile, four review or meta-analysis studies while different in the year of study, inclusion and exclusion criteria, manifested that the results of massage therapy was an effective non-pharmacological pain control in patients with cancer. Conclusions:Finally, it can be concluded that massage therapy is an effective non-pharmacological way to control pain in adult patients with cancer. Furthermore, studies in Iran on the effects of massage therapy on pain in patients with cancer are limited and much more research is needed in this area.

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“…While massage therapy has been extensively studied to relieve cancer or other chronic pain conditions ( Bardia, Barton, Prokop, Bauer, & Moynihan, 2006 ;Dhanani, Caruso, & Carinci, 2011 ;Ernst, 2009 ;Falkensteiner, Mantovan, Müller, & Them, 2011 ;Furlan, Imamura, Dryden, & Irvine, 2009 ;Lafferty, Downey, McCarty, Standish, & Patrick, 2006 ), fewer experimentally designed studies have evaluated the effect of massage therapy as an adjunct to analgesic administration in patients with acute surgical pain ( Drackley, Degnim, Jakub, Cutshall, Thomley, Brodt, & Boughey, 2012 ;Shorofi , 2011;Wentworth, Briese, Timimi, Sanvick, Bartel, Cutshall, & Bauer, 2009 ). The majority of these studies evaluated massage therapy in postoperative cardiac surgical patients ( Albert et al, 2009 ;Cutshall, Wentworth, Engen, Messner, & Wood, 2010;Braun et al, 2012 ;Hattan, King, & Griffi ths, 2002 ;Kshettry, Carole, Henly, Sendlebach, & Kummer, 2006 ).…”

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Effect of a Brief Massage on Pain, Anxiety, and Satisfaction With Pain Management in Postoperative Orthopaedic Patients

Miller

Dunion

Dunn

et al. 2015

Orthopaedic Nursing

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The Use of Massage Therapy for Reducing Pain, Anxiety, and Depression in Oncological Palliative Care Patients: A Narrative Review of the Literature

Cited by 42 publications

References 22 publications

Foot Massage Modification to Reduce Blood Pressure in Pregnant Woman with Preeclampsia

Foot Massage Modification to Reduce Blood Pressure in Pregnant Woman with Preeclampsia

Massage Therapy in Patients With Cancer Pain: A Review on Palliative Care

Effect of a Brief Massage on Pain, Anxiety, and Satisfaction With Pain Management in Postoperative Orthopaedic Patients

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