Massage Journal Club Online Discussion Articles
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
1 Adobe Reader 1
2 Bibliography. 1
3 November 2006. 1
4 December 2006. 2
5 January 2007. 2
6 February 2007. 2
7 March 2007. 2
8 April 2007. 3
9 May 2007. 3
10 June 2007. 3
11 July 2007. 4
12 August 2007-Neuromuscular 5
13 September 2007. 5
14 October 2007. 5
15 November 2007-Rolfing. 5
16 December 2007-Myofacial 6
17 January 2008. 7
18 February 2008. 7
19 March 2008. 7
20 April 2008. 7
21 May 2008. 7
22 June 2008. 7
23 July 2008. 7
24 August 2008. 7
25 September 2008. 7
26 October 2008-Neuromuscular 8
27 November 2008-Trigger Point
Therapy. 8
1.1 Download the adobe
reader and install on your computer.
3
November 2006
3.1 Effectiveness of
massage therapy for Subacute low-back pain: a
randomized controlled trial
3.2 Is massage therapy
genuinely effective? Letters
3.3 Analysis of
November Research
3.3.1
HTML
Version (This may appear differently on Different Computers but all the links
will work)
3.3.2 PDF Version (May
be easier to read) (This should appear the same
on all computers but none of the links will work-You will also have to have a
PDF reader on your computer)
3.3.3 XPS Version
3.3.4 Tech Free (Common
Language) Analysis of November Research (Still needs editing-Beware of Factual
Errors)
3.3.4.1
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Computers)(All the links should work)
3.3.4.2
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none of the links will work-You will also have to have a PDF reader on your
computer)
3.3.4.3
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the links should work)(You may have to download
Microsoft .NET Framework on your computer)
3.4 Activities
3.4.1 Questions
3.4.2 Activities
3.4.3 Questions to
Author
4.1 Massage for
mechanical neck disorders (Review)
5
January 2007
5.1 A Meta-Analysis of
Massage Therapy Research
6.1 Development of a
taxonomy to describe massage treatments for musculoskeletal pain
7.1 Insurance Coverage
and Subsequent Utilization of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Providers
7.2 Characteristics of
Visits to Licensed Acupuncturists, Chiropractors, Massage Therapists, and
Naturopathic Physicians
7.3 Characteristics of
licensed acupuncturists, chiropractors, massage therapists, and naturopathic
physicians
7.4 Extent and
structure of health insurance expenditures for complementary and alternative
medicine in Swiss primary care
7.5 The effect of
complementary and alternative medicine claims on risk adjustment
7.6 Complementary
and alternative medicine use among health plan members. A cross-sectional survey.
7.7 Trends in alternative
medicine use in the United States, 1990-1997: results of a follow-up national
survey
7.8 Unconventional
medicine in the United States. Prevalence, costs, and patterns of use 265
7.9 What do clinicians
want? Interest in integrative health services at a North Carolina academic
medical center
8.1 A multi-modal
treatment approach for the shoulder: a 4 patient case series
9.1 Johrei family
healing: a pilot study
9.2 A close look at
therapeutic touch
9.2.2 Letters
9.3 Biophotonic
Research
10.1 Complementary and
alternative medicine use among adults: United States
10.2 Luxury primary
care, academic medical centers, and the erosion of science and professional
ethics
10.3 Credentialing
complementary and alternative medical providers
10.4 An approach for integrating
complementary-alternative medicine into primary care
10.5 Complementary
or alternative? Stronger vs weaker integration
policies
10.6 Integrating
complementary and alternative medicine into academic medical centers:
experience and perceptions of nine leading centers in North America
11.1 Is the placebo
powerless? An analysis of clinical trials comparing placebo with no treatment
11.2 Is the placebo
powerless? Update of a systematic review with 52 new randomized trials
comparing placebo with no treatment.
11.3 Believe in your
placebo
11.4 Placebo effects
mediated by endogenous opioid activity on mu-opioid receptors.
11.5 Placebo-induced changes
in FMRI in the anticipation and experience of pain
11.6 Placebos in
medicine: medical paradoxes need disentangling
11.7 Enhancing human
healing
11.8 Placebos in
practice
11.9 Praised be
placebo, may its glory shine
11.10
Questionnaire survey on use of placebo
11.11
Brain activity associated with expectancy-enhanced placebo
analgesia as measured by functional magnetic resonance imaging
11.12
Changes in brain function of depressed subjects during
treatment with placebo
11.13
Conscious expectation and unconscious conditioning in
analgesic, motor, and hormonal placebo/nocebo
responses
11.14
The functional neuroanatomy of the placebo effect
11.15
Placebo
12.1 The Comparative
Effects of Sports Massage, Active Recovery, and Rest in Promoting Blood Lactate
Clearance After Supramaximal Leg Exercise
12.2 Corrective
Neuromuscular Approach to the Treatment of Iliotibial Band Friction Syndrome: A
Case Report
12.3 Dynamic soft
tissue mobilisation increases hamstring flexibility in healthy male subjects
12.4 Effect of lower
limb massage on electromyography and force production of the knee extensors
12.5 Effects of massage
on delayed-onset muscle soreness, swelling, and recovery of muscle function
12.6 Effects of sport
massage on limb girth and discomfort associated with eccentric exercise
12.7 Effect of submaximal contraction intensity in contract-relax
proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation stretching.
12.8 Duration of
Maintained Hamstring Flexibility After a One-Time, Modified Hold-Relax
Stretching Protocol
13.1 Women's Evaluation
of Intrapartum Nonpharmacological Pain Relief Methods Used during Labor
14.1 Does McKenzie
therapy improve outcomes for back pain?
15.1 Effects of soft
tissue mobilization (Rolfing pelvic lift) on parasympathetic tone in two age
groups
15.2 Shifts in pelvic
inclination angle and parasympathetic tone produced by Rolfing soft tissue
manipulation
15.3 Biomechanical
structuring for figure skating, in Preliminary pilot study report
15.4 Electromyographic
evaluation of Structural Integration techniques
15.5 A study of
Structural Integration from neuromuscular, energy field & emotional
approaches, in Research Report submitted to Rolf Institute
15.6 Fascial plasticity
- a new neurobiological explanation: Part 1
15.7 Fascial plasticity
- a new neurobiological explanation: Part 2
15.8 Fifth
Interdisciplinary World Congress on Low Back & Pelvic Pain
15.9 Active fascial
contractility: Fascia may be able to contract in a smooth muscle-like manner
and thereby influence musculoskeletal dynamics
15.10
Passive muscle stiffness may be influenced by active
contractility of intramuscular connective tissue
16.1 Effects of
osteopathic manipulative treatment on pediatric
patients with asthma: a randomized controlled trial
16.2 Improved chest
expansion in idiopathic scoliosis after intensive, multiple-modality,
nonsurgical treatment in an adult
16.3 Myofascial force transmission:
muscle relative position and length determine agonist and synergist muscle
force
16.4 Cellular mechanotransduction: putting all the pieces together again
16.5 Tensegrity I. Cell structure
and hierarchical systems biology
16.6 Tensegrity II. How
structural networks influence cellular information processing networks
16.7 Cell-matrix
entanglement and mechanical anchorage of fibroblasts in three-dimensional
collagen matrices
16.8 Dynamic fibroblast
cytoskeletal response to subcutaneous tissue stretch
ex vivo and in vivo
16.9 Extramuscular myofascial force transmission for in situ rat medial
gastrocnemius and plantaris muscles in progressive
stages of dissection
16.10
Manipulative treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome:
biomechanical and osteopathic intervention to increase the length of the
transverse carpal ligament: part 2. Effect of sex differences and manipulative
"priming"
17.1 Effect of oil
massage on growth and neurobehavior in very low birth weight preterm neonates
17.2 Oil massage in
neonates: an open randomized controlled study of coconut versus mineral oil
17.3 Transcutaneous
absorption of topically massaged oil in neonates
18.1 Evaluating effects
of aromatherapy massage on sleep in children with autism: a pilot study
19.1 Treatment of low
back pain by acupressure and physical therapy: randomised controlled trial
20.1 A pilot study evaluating
mindfulness-based stress reduction and massage for the management of chronic
pain
21.1 A pilot,
prospective evaluation of a novel alternative for maintenance therapy of breast
cancer-associated lymphedema
22.1 Ergonomic
and physiotherapeutic interventions for treating work-related complaints of the
arm, neck or shoulder in adults. A Cochrane
systematic review.
23.1 Effectiveness of
Massage Therapy for Chronic, Non-malignant Pain: A Review
24.1 Health costs in
anthroposophic therapy users: a two-year prospective cohort study
25.1 Common overuse
tendon problems: A review and recommendations for treatment
26.1 A 4-week
neuromuscular training program and gait patterns at the ankle joint
26.2 Differential
neuromuscular training effects on ACL injury risk factors in"high-risk"
versus "low-risk" athletes
26.3 Acute ankle
sprain: an update
26.4 Effect of counterstrain on stretch reflexes, hoffmann reflexes, and clinical outcomes in subjects
with plantar fasciitis
26.5 Stretch reflex and
Hoffmann reflex responses to osteopathic manipulative treatment in subjects
with Achilles tendinitis
26.6 Reactive Neuromuscular
Training for the Anterior Cruciate Ligament-Deficient Knee: A Case Report
26.7 Recent advances in
sports medicine
26.8 Prolonged muscle
vibration increases stretch reflex amplitude, motor unit discharge rate, and
force fluctuations in a hand muscle
26.9 Proprioceptive
neuromuscular facilitation training induced alterations in muscle fibre type
and cross sectional area
26.10
Acute Effects of Static and Proprioceptive Neuromuscular
Facilitation Stretching on Muscle Strength and Power Output
26.11
Osteopathic manipulative treatment techniques preferred by
contemporary osteopathic physicians
26.12
Gross range of motion in the cervical spine: the effects of
osteopathic muscle energy technique in asymptomatic subjects.
26.13
An overview of osteopathic medicine
26.14
Use of osteopathic manipulative treatment for iliotibial
band friction syndrome
26.15
27.1 A case report of a
patient with upper extremity symptoms: differentiating radicular and referred
pain
27.2 Teaching medical
students trigger point techniques
27.3 The importance of
postural habits in perpetuating myofascial trigger
point pain
27.4 Trigger points:
diagnosis and management.
27.5 Management of
fibromyalgia syndrome
27.6 Travell trigger
points--molecular and osteopathic perspectives
28
December 2008
28.1 A survey of
training and practice patterns of massage therapists in two US states
