ArticleJournal of education and health promotion2018
Long-term effect of massage therapy on blood pressure in prehypertensive women.
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- Effect of Manual Massage, Foam Rolling, and Strength Training on Hemodynamic and Autonomic Responses in Adults: A Scoping Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Effectiveness of stress management and relaxation interventions for management of hypertension and prehypertension: systematic review and network meta-analysis.BMJ medicine · 2025Article
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- Wanted: long term studies on massage therapy in hypertension.Journal of human hypertension · 2020Article
- The Effect of Massage on the Cardiac Autonomic Nervous System and Markers of Inflammation in Night Shift Workers: a Pilot Randomized Crossover Trial.International journal of therapeutic massage & bodywork · 2020Article
- Right ventricular (RV) echocardiographic parameters in patients with pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE).ARYA atherosclerosis · 2018Article
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Abstract
backgroundPrehypertension is one of the cardiovascular disease predicators. Management of prehypertension is an appropriate objective for clinicians in a wide range of medical centers. Massage therapy is primarily nonpharmacological treatment that is used to control blood pressure (BP). This study intends to investigate the long-term effect of massage therapy on BP in prehypertensive women.
methodsThis was a single-blind clinical trial study conducted on 50 prehypertensive women who referred to Sedigheh Tahereh Cardiovascular Center, during 6 months in 2009. Participants were selected by simple random sampling and were divided into control and intervention groups. The test group (25 patients) received massage for 10-15 min, three times a week for 10 sessions, and the control group (25 patients) was relaxed in the same environment but with no massage. Their BP was measured before and after each session and 72 h and 2 weeks after finishing the massage therapy. Analyzing the data was done using descriptive and inferential statistical methods (Chi-square, Mann-Whitney, paired
resultsThe results indicated that the mean systolic BP (SBP) and diastolic BP (DBP) in the massage group were significantly lower in comparison with the control group (
conclusionsAlthough massage therapy seems to be a safe, effective, applicable, and cost-effective intervention to control BP of prehypertensive women, its effects do not persist for a long time.
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