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September 15, 2004
Relieving Post Operative Pain
Massage Magazine discusses the role of massage therapy in pain management in hospital settings.
According to a recently published study from an Ann Arbor VA hospital in Michigan, there’s more to pain than the sensory markers of quality and intensity. There’s also the personal perception of pain, the affective feeling of unpleasantness that can translate to suffering.
With these factors in mind, the Ann Arbor team surmised more effective pain control may be achieved by supplementing opioid care with complementary therapies. Massage has been proven to decrease pain in past studies, and it is this time-honored practice that Hinshaw recounts as having once been at the forefront of nursing care.
The authors state, “The most compelling finding of this investigation was that massage significantly accelerated the rate of decline in pain unpleasantness as perceived by the patients.”
Posted by linda at September 15, 2004 4:56 PM
