Heart and Soul, Everything Your Body

Heart and Soul, Everything Your Body

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In all cultures, massage is commonly utilized to promote profound relaxation and decreased anxiety. Massage is likely to reduce anxiety and improve mood because it alters EEG activity, lowers cortisol levels, and activates the parasympathetic nervous system, which automatically calms the body and brain under stress. Research indicates that moderate pressure massage is superior to light pressure massage in terms of alleviating pain related to various medical conditions, such as rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia.

Modern research methodologies make it challenging to investigate the positive effects of massage therapy since a double-blind study, in which the recipient of massage therapy is "blinded" to treatment, cannot be designed. In controlled trials, it is also challenging to measure the psychological and physical effects of massage. A sham control group, or a group treated by an untrained individual posing as a massage therapist, is absent from many research, which limits their findings.

The fact that few massage therapists have had training in research techniques or are employed in institutional settings where sham-controlled experiments are permitted further complicates the problem.