Many Clinical trials suggest that massage therapy may help relieve the symptoms depression.
It may also be a helpful addition to your overall treatment plan.
Studies suggest that touch releases hormones in your body that create a sense of emotional connection.
Massage may help calm your mind and improve your mood, as well as ease physical aches and pains.
While more research is needed, scientists have found evidence to support the claim that massage
therapy may provide mental health and emotional benefits.
When your muscles and connective tissues become stiff or rigid it can cause pain and limit your
range of movement, Massage Therapy can help relieve that tension and rigidity. It also increases blood flow
and promotes relaxation.
If you suffer with chronic depression, massage therapy probably won’t cure your condition,
but it may help relieve the physical symptoms associated with it. For example, massage may help
alleviate sluggishness, back pain, joint pain, and muscle aches. It can also help relieve fatigue and
sleeping problems.
On its own, massage therapy won’t provide long-term relief from your depression. It does not address the
emotional or chemical issues underlying your symptoms in a sustainable way. It should not be used as a
replacement for conventional treatment options.
What do the expert say?
Dr. Mason Turner, chief of psychiatry at Kaiser Permanente hospital in San Francisco, suggests that massage
therapy can help treat depression by relieving muscle tension and improving physical health.
Massage, he said, helps strengthen your body-mind connection.
Anything that helps the person connect their mind and body together can be helpful, he told Healthline.
READ MORE: https://www.healthline.com/health/depression/massage-therapy#cons
A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of massage therapy in depressed people was conducted using published studies from PubMed, EMBASE, PsycINFO, and CINAHL electronic database from inception until July 2008.
The terms used for the search were derived from medical subheading term (MeSH) massage combined
with MeSH depression. Hand searching was also checked for bibliographies of relevant articles.
Retrieval articles were constrained to RCTs/clinical trials and human subjects. No language restrictions were imposed.
Study selection: We included 17 studies containing 786 persons from 246 retrieved references.
All trials showed positive effect of massage therapy on depressed people.
Conclusions: Massage therapy is significantly associated with alleviated depressive symptoms. However,
standardized protocols of massage therapy, various depression rating scales, and target populations in
further studies are suggested.
More Info: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20361919/
Abstracts
This article reviews the current state of knowledge of the role of massage therapy in the treatment of common psychiatric disorders and symptoms. It briefly discusses the prevalence of psychiatric disorders and the popularity of complementary and integrative treatments in the general population. The authors touch on the growing literature describing the biology and neurobiology of massage therapy. The impact of massage as both a therapy for major psychiatric disorders and a treatment for psychiatric symptoms is reviewed, and how massage therapists conceptualize and treat their patients with psychiatric complaints is discussed. If psychiatrists are going to partner with massage therapists, they need to understand how massage therapists’ perspectives differ from those of traditional practitioners of allopathic medicine. A model of how psychiatrists and other mental health professionals can work with massage therapists to care for patients is proposed, followed by a summary of the article’s key points.
In conclusion, there is an interface between psychiatric disorders and complementary and alternative therapies such as massage. Accordingly, validated alternative therapies are now being integrated within the medical mainstream under the rubric “complementary and integrative medicine” (CIM). Consistent with this, and reflecting an emphasis on well-being and treatment of disease, the National Institutes of Health have renamed the center addressing CAM therapies the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health. Psychiatric disorders are common and disabling, and current treatment methods, although helpful for many, are not the treatment of choice for many patients and are insufficient to alleviate disability and suffering for many others. This suggests that allopathic practitioners should think about two questions: What is the body of evidence supporting CIM interventions, and what is the best way for a psychiatrist or other mental health service provider and a CIM practitioner to interact with each other in the care of a patient? We address these two important issues.
More Info: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6519566/
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