The Impact of Massage Therapy on Function in Pain Populations

Pain

An uncomfortable sensory and emotional experience linked to or defined in terms of tissue damage, whether actual or possible. Pain is always a personal experience. Acute and chronic pain are two different types of pain.

Pain Massage Therapy

A large number of cancer patients are searching out and using complementary alternative medicine (CIM) as a result of disappointing results from conventional cancer pain management, as well as the awareness of the importance of developing patient needs to be based on patients’ own criteria for meaningful and holistic pain relief across physical, operational, and psychosocial domains.

 Tantric London Massage therapy has been used by many cancer patients to aid with not only physical relaxation and pain relief, but also emotional discomfort, functional capacity, and general wellbeing. 

Therapeutic massage Knightsbridge has been used more in medical care services to relieve pain and symptoms associated, as well as improve personal health and wellbeing in people with cancer, in response to increasing demand for a more integrated pain management strategy for cancer patients.

Given its wide use and theoretical support, there is intense debate and contradictory evidence about massage therapy’s effectiveness in the treatment of cancer pain.

Massage therapy has been shown to have a beneficial impact on relieving cancer symptoms and side effects associated with intense cancer care in some studies, although others have shown that it does not dramatically relieve cancer pain.

Others claim that massage therapy can help with cancer symptoms and side effects associated with aggressive cancer care and medications], while others claim that massage therapy can help with cancer symptoms and side effects. To date, there hasn’t been a thorough systematic study that tries to fully understand both the reach of massage therapy and its full impact on different results linked to cancer pain from a holistic perspective. 

Current Treatment Methods and Obstacles

The mainstay in cancer pain management is pharmacologic treatments (i.e., non-opioids, opiates, adjuvant medications), as well as interventional procedures (e.g., nerve blocks, local anaesthetics, surgical interventions). Despite their widespread use and therapeutic benefits for pain management, these treatments are linked to the risk of opioid abuse as well as unintended side effects (such as nausea, vomiting, dizziness, and confusion). As a result, practitioners face a difficult task in deciding the proper dose to effectively alleviate pain while avoiding certain side effects.

According to studies, medical practitioners, such as oncologists and nurses, may lack the necessary resources, expertise, and skills to correctly evaluate a patient’s pain severity and prescribe the appropriate medication dose. In judging both the magnitude of the treatment plan and the areas affected by everyday life, for instance, there is often a disparity between both the patient and the physician, with the physician usually underrating the patient’s pain intensity and undertreating cancer pain. Many medical centres have started to put a greater focus on obtaining regular evaluations of the patient’s pain level in order to reduce this disparity.

STRICT-M Evaluation

The Working Group and review committee met to draught the proposed STRICT-M standards, which were adapted from STRICTA.  Half of the subjects provided a justification for choosing the massage treatment, and all of them mentioned the massage technique. Only a few aspects of the massage Knightsbridge procedure were described.

Massage therapy was considered to be comparatively effective, despite the occurrence of several adverse effects. Overall, massage therapy seems to be more successful than other active therapies for cancer patients in terms of minimising pain intensity/severity, exhaustion, and panic.

 Owing to a lack of research investigating these results, the evidence synthesis on emotional stress and activity outcomes was not possible.