Migraine Headaches are Reduced by Massage Therapy
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Neuroscience
- Vol. 96 (1-2) , 1-11
- https://doi.org/10.3109/00207459808986453
Abstract
Twenty-six adults with migraine headaches were randomly assigned to a wait-list control group or to a massage therapy group, who received two 30-minute massages per week for five consecutive weeks. The massage therapy subjects reported fewer distress symptoms, less pain, more headache free days, fewer sleep disturbances and they showed an increase in serotonin levels.Keywords
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