Revista de fisioterapia y rehabilitación física

The Benefits of Massage Therapy for Stroke Patients Sequelae

Abstract

Beckett Curran

Adults with long-term disabilities have the highest risk of stroke. Stroke survivors experience agonist antagonist co-contraction, weakness, spasticity, and lack of coordination as upper motor neuron syndrome signs and symptoms. Stroke survivors experience permanent disability at up to 50%. They all add up to impairments and problems with functioning that could cost a lot of money. Physical therapy can help people with disabilities by improving their disability and quality of life. The most common form of passive physical therapy is manual therapeutic massage, which is one of the oldest forms of medicine known to man and has been used worldwide since antiquity. All back rub controls exert mechanical forces on delicate tissues via "mechanotransduction." Massage may help reduce muscle stiffness and increase muscle compliance by increasing blood flow and muscle temperature. Therapeutic massage comes in many different varieties. In the Western world, Swedish massage is the most common type of massage. Based on Western ideas of anatomy and physiology, one of the most common treatments for athletes who want to improve their performance is massage. In order to achieve or maintain health, it requires the systematic application of manual pressure as well as the movement of soft tissue with rhythmic pressure and stroking.