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Massage Doesn't Just Make
Muscles Feel Better, It Makes
Them Heal Faster and Stronger
A new study confirms the link between
mechanotherapy and immunotherapy in muscle
regeneration in mice.
The study, published in Science Translational
Medicine, aimed to evaluate whether massage
and "mechanotherapies" (i.e., massage guns)
actually improve healing after severe injury.
Researchers used a custom-designed
robotic system to deliver consistent and tunable
compressive forces to the leg muscles of mice
and found that this mechanical loading (ML)
"rapidly clears immune cells called neutrophils
out of severely injured muscle tissue." By the
same process, inflammatory cytokines were
removed from the muscles, resulting in an
enhanced process of muscle fiber regeneration.
"Our work shows a very clear connection
between mechanical stimulation and immune
function. This has promise for regenerating a
wide variety of tissues, including bone, tendon,
hair, and skin, and can also be used in patients
with diseases that prevent the use of drug-
based interventions," says first author Bo Ri Seo,
PhD.
The team is continuing to investigate this line
of research with multiple projects in the lab, and
they plan to evaluate the mechanotherapeutic
approach in larger animals, with the goal of
being able to test its efficacy on humans.
Read the full study online at science.org/
doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.abe8868.
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Chair Massage with
David Palmer
In this episode of The ABMP
Podcast, David Palmer, commonly
referred to as the "father of
contemporary chair massage,"
discusses what his "aha" moment
was when developing seated
massage, where the chair massage
routine was born out of, keys
to success for practitioners, and what
the future of chair massage holds.
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