Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. Email: berit. The aim was to evaluate emotional experiences of gentle skin massage, combined with regular rehabilitation in patients shortly after being diagnosed with stroke.
A randomized study with two groups: standard individualized rehabilitation and tactile massage for 20 min three times per week max nine times or individual standardized rehabilitations. The interviews lasted between 6โ25 min and analysed using manifest content analysis. The participants experienced emotional worries especially during the night hours affecting their sleep negatively. Receiving tactile massage was reported to relax and to ease worries and anxiety momentarily, during the session and for a longer period.
The results also show that physical touch generates feelings of closeness. The findings will be presented in two categories: Human touch and The future. Having a stroke is for most a deeply frightening experience and aiming to regain lost function is often challenging on many levels Hankey, Among symptoms following stroke pain and anxiety are described as affecting the patient's quality of life and is greatly underdiagnosed and undertreated Campbell Burton et al.
According to Harrison and Field , clinicians need to better identify those at risk of pain following stroke by analysing types of pain as well as options of treatments. Thus, we hypothesized that stroke patients could potentially benefit from TM. Smaller studies on TM and stroke have been performed and reported in national journals. However, studies on patient experience of TM in stroke are lacking in the international literature.
Therefore, we interviewed patients participating in a randomized controlled trial comparing the addition of TM as an active comparator to regular rehabilitation in an inpatient specialized neurological rehabilitation clinic and compared with ordinary rehabilitation alone. The aim of the study was to evaluate emotional experiences of gentle skin massage, TM, combined with regular rehabilitation in patients shortly after being diagnosed with stroke.
