Journal article
Massage therapy for essential hypertension: a systematic review
Abstract
Massage, an ancient Chinese healing art, is widely practiced for symptom relief in hypertensive patients with anxiety, depression, headache, vertigo, chronic pain in neck, shoulder and back. A large number of case series and clinical trials have been published. However, it is still unclear whether massage can be recommended as an effective therapy for essential hypertension (EH). We estimated the current clinical evidence of massage for EH. …
Authors
Xiong XJ; Li SJ; Zhang YQ
Journal
Journal of Human Hypertension, Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 143–151
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
March 2015
DOI
10.1038/jhh.2014.52
ISSN
0950-9240