Volume : IX, Issue : VIII, August - 2019

Role of massage in pain management (A Review)

Dr Aliya Fareed Nowshahri

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The healing power of a well placed hand is so apparent that just about every culture in history has used massage to relieve pain. Pain is multidimensional and may be better addressed through a holistic, biopsychosocial approach. Massage therapy is commonly practiced among patients seeking pain management. Now a day’s massage therapy is considered part of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) In unani system of medicine dalak known as massage is an ancient mode of treatment. Massage has been advocated in western health care. Practices at least since the time of Hippocrates (460–377 BC) the “father of medicine” Dalak is one of the very important regimes among the procedures of ilaj–bit–tadbeer (regimental therapy) for neurological and musculoskeletal disorders. This review articles aims to explore the preventive as well as therapeutic application of dalak (massage) in perspective of classical unani texts and their indications in psychosomatic and neurological disorders.

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ROLE OF MASSAGE IN PAIN MANAGEMENT (A REVIEW), Dr Aliya Fareed Nowshahri INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-9 | Issue-8 | August-2019

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