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Immunomodulatory Effects Of Massage In Skeletal Muscle, Christine Waters Banker
Immunomodulatory Effects Of Massage In Skeletal Muscle, Christine Waters Banker
Theses and Dissertations--Rehabilitation Sciences
The inflammatory process is a critical component of the repair and regeneration of skeletal muscle following injury. The influx of innate immune cells following injury is intricate, and temporal nature. Although required for proper repair and regeneration, the inflammatory process has been shown to exacerbate initial damage, prolonging the healing process. Complementary Alternative Medicine (CAM) treatments, such as massage therapy, are a promising substitute for pharmaceutical modulation of the inflammatory response, and recent studies into the efficacy of massage have begun to report the physiological benefits of massage application following injury. Nonetheless, there is a significant lack of sound mechanistic …