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EXERCISE AND SPORT SCIENCES REVIEWS
Volume 49, Issue 2, Pages 107-114Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1249/JES.0000000000000244
Keywords
massage; mechanotherapy; skeletal muscle; atrophy; exercise
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- National Institutes of Health [AG042699, AT009268]
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Massage is believed to have many health benefits, and recent research has started to investigate the physiological and clinical effects of massage in a controlled manner. Studies support the hypothesis that massage can be used as mechanotherapy to improve biologically relevant adaptations in skeletal muscle and muscle properties.
Massage is anecdotally associated with many health benefits, but physiological and clinically relevant mechanisms recently have begun to be investigated in a controlled manner. Herein, we describe research supporting our hypothesis that massage can be used as a mechanotherapy imparting biologically relevant adaptations in skeletal muscle and improving muscle properties.
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