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Massage involves acting and manipulating the patient's anatomy with pressure (structured, unstructured, stationary, and/or moving), tension, motion, or vibration done manually or with mechanical aids
- Massage can be applied with the hands, fingers, elbows, forearm, and feet, as far as there are over 80 different types of massage
- The most cited reasons for introducing massage was patient demand and clinical effectiveness.
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Massage increases pulmonary function in asthmatics , decreases glucose levels in patients with diabetes mellitus and increases natural killer cells in HIV and cancer patients
- Massage therapy also reduces claret pressure in stroke patients and alcohol detoxification symptoms
- It also relieves temporomandibular joint dysfunction, Massage can cooperation with spastic diplegia resulting Massage Therapists Seattle from Cerebral palsy