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Use of massage therapy for pain

JAMA Network Open

2024-07-15
(Press-News.org) About The Study: This study found that despite a large number of randomized clinical trials, systematic reviews of massage therapy for painful adult health conditions rated a minority of conclusions as moderate-certainty evidence and that conclusions with moderate- or high-certainty evidence that massage therapy was superior to other active therapies were rare. 

Corresponding Author: To contact the corresponding author, Selene Mak, Ph.D., M.P.H., email selene.mak@va.gov.

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(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.22259)

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