PMID- 25197310
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20140908
LR  - 20220409
IS  - 1741-427X (Print)
IS  - 1741-4288 (Electronic)
IS  - 1741-427X (Linking)
VI  - 2014
DP  - 2014
TI  - Adverse events of massage therapy in pain-related conditions: a systematic 
      review.
PG  - 480956
LID - 10.1155/2014/480956 [doi]
LID - 480956
AB  - Pain-related massage, important in traditional Eastern medicine, is increasingly 
      used in the Western world. So the widening acceptance demands continual safety 
      assessment. This review is an evaluation of the frequency and severity of adverse 
      events (AEs) reported mainly for pain-related massage between 2003 and 2013. 
      Relevant all-languages reports in 6 databases were identified and assessed by two 
      coauthors. During the 11-year period, 40 reports of 138 AEs were associated with 
      massage. Author, year of publication, country of occurrence, participant related 
      (age, sex) or number of patients affected, the details of manual therapy, and 
      clinician type were extracted. Disc herniation, soft tissue trauma, neurologic 
      compromise, spinal cord injury, dissection of the vertebral arteries, and others 
      were the main complications of massage. Spinal manipulation in massage has 
      repeatedly been associated with serious AEs especially. Clearly, massage 
      therapies are not totally devoid of risks. But the incidence of such events is 
      low.
FAU - Yin, Ping
AU  - Yin P
AD  - Acupuncture Department, Shanghai Municipal Hospital of Traditional Chinese 
      Medicine, Shanghai 200071, China.
FAU - Gao, Ningyang
AU  - Gao N
AD  - Traumatology Department, Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of 
      Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 201203, China.
FAU - Wu, Junyi
AU  - Wu J
AD  - Acupuncture Department, Shanghai Municipal Hospital of Traditional Chinese 
      Medicine, Shanghai 200071, China.
FAU - Litscher, Gerhard
AU  - Litscher G
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-6287-0130
AD  - Research Unit for Complementary and Integrative Laser Medicine, Research Unit of 
      Biomedical Engineering in Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, and TCM 
      Research Center Graz, Medical University of Graz, 8036 Graz, Austria.
FAU - Xu, Shifen
AU  - Xu S
AD  - Acupuncture Department, Shanghai Municipal Hospital of Traditional Chinese 
      Medicine, Shanghai 200071, China.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Review
DEP - 20140812
PL  - United States
TA  - Evid Based Complement Alternat Med
JT  - Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM
JID - 101215021
PMC - PMC4145795
EDAT- 2014/09/10 06:00
MHDA- 2014/09/10 06:01
PMCR- 2014/08/12
CRDT- 2014/09/09 06:00
PHST- 2014/07/08 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2014/07/31 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2014/09/09 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2014/09/10 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2014/09/10 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2014/08/12 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1155/2014/480956 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2014;2014:480956. doi: 10.1155/2014/480956. 
      Epub 2014 Aug 12.