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Massage Therapy Treatment Report
What is Massage Therapy?
Massage is the practice of applying structured pressure, tension, motion or vibration manually or with mechanical aids to the soft tissues of the body, including muscles, connective tissue, tendons, ligaments, joints and lymphatic vessels, to achieve a beneficial response.
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Reasons gone to
36 patients in the community are going to or have gone to Massage Therapy.
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients |
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| Muscle tension | 14 | 38% |
| Back pain | 5 | 13% |
| Other | 4 | 11% |
| Anxiety | 2 | 5% |
| General health | 2 | 5% |
| Muscle Pain | 2 | 5% |
| Fibromyalgia | 1 | 2% |
| muscle and joint pain all over | 1 | 2% |
Schedules
Based on the patients currently going to Massage Therapy.
Top 10 (Show all)
All (Show top 10)
| 1hours as needed | 1 hr as needed | 30minutes as needed | daily | weekly | 1 hr yearly | 1 hr monthly | 1.5 hours monthly | 1 hr every other week | 4 hr monthly | 1 hr weekly | 3 hr weekly | 15 min monthly | 20 hr monthly | 1 hr one time | 45 min monthly | 60 min monthly | 120 min monthly | 90 min every other week | 60 min weekly | ||
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Duration
How long current patients have been going to Massage Therapy or how long patients were going to Massage Therapy before stopping.
Currently Going to Massage Therapy
Stopped Going to Massage Therapy
Patient Reported Evaluations
Results from 5 patient evaluations. See the overall results and all individual evaluations.
Efficacy (Effect based on reason taken)
| Major | 100% | 2 |
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Other
Side-effects (as an overall problem)
| Severe | 0% | 0 |
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| Moderate | 0% | 0 |
| Mild | 0% | 0 |
| None | 100% | 5 |
Top reported side-effects include: Soreness if too firm, Muscle soreness, next day pain
Summary results are based on 5 individual responses. For more information, see overall results for Adherence, Burden and Cost.
Individual Patient Reported Evaluations (2 of 5)
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- Marin
- Depression: 2
- Emotional: 2
- Compulsion: 2
- Anxiety: 2
- Mania: 1
- Physical: 2
- External Stress: Severe
- 15
- Function: Low
- Distress: Moderate
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by Marin
Nov 22, 2008
- EfficacyModerate
- Side-effectsNone
- Anxiety
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- MiaBella
- Sex: F
- Depression: 2
- Emotional: 2
- Compulsion: 2
- Anxiety: 2
- Mania: 0
- Physical: 1
- External Stress: Overwhelming
- 40 F
- Function: Moderate
- Distress: Moderate
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by MiaBella
Feb 01, 2009
- EfficacyMajor
- Side-effectsNone
- Muscle Pain
- Advice/Tips
- A Swedish Massage is your basic massage and is very tranquil and relaxing. It is great if you are experience stress or PTSD.
- See full evaluation
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Report created on November 07, 2009.