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Cyriax Friction Massage—Suggestions for Improvements
Background and objectives: Cyriax friction massage is a widely known and used technique in the field of chronic pain management. Despite its frequent use in daily clinical practice, the technique lacks evidence to support its therapeutic value. While this might be due to various factors, the authors...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6572216/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31117314 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina55050185 |
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author | Pitsillides, Alexios Stasinopoulos, Dimitrios |
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description | Background and objectives: Cyriax friction massage is a widely known and used technique in the field of chronic pain management. Despite its frequent use in daily clinical practice, the technique lacks evidence to support its therapeutic value. While this might be due to various factors, the authors of this paper suggest that the technique might need to be improved and/or modernized according to the recent literature. The purpose of this letter is to further analyze our point of view. Materials and Methods: Using the most relevant methods to the subject literature, the authors intended to point out a few technical details that might need reconsideration and/or modernization. Results: An appropriate terminology is suggested in the text. Further, suggestions are made regarding the technique’s interval time, a possible addition of self-treatment, a discussion of the combination with Mill’s manipulation, tendon positioning and other parameters. Conclusions: As a therapeutic value has not yet been clearly documented, and since the modernization and/or improvement of the technique might be needed, we suggest that this technique should not be used as a first-line treatment for the management of chronic pain. |
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spelling | pubmed-65722162019-06-18 Cyriax Friction Massage—Suggestions for Improvements Pitsillides, Alexios Stasinopoulos, Dimitrios Medicina (Kaunas) Opinion Background and objectives: Cyriax friction massage is a widely known and used technique in the field of chronic pain management. Despite its frequent use in daily clinical practice, the technique lacks evidence to support its therapeutic value. While this might be due to various factors, the authors of this paper suggest that the technique might need to be improved and/or modernized according to the recent literature. The purpose of this letter is to further analyze our point of view. Materials and Methods: Using the most relevant methods to the subject literature, the authors intended to point out a few technical details that might need reconsideration and/or modernization. Results: An appropriate terminology is suggested in the text. Further, suggestions are made regarding the technique’s interval time, a possible addition of self-treatment, a discussion of the combination with Mill’s manipulation, tendon positioning and other parameters. Conclusions: As a therapeutic value has not yet been clearly documented, and since the modernization and/or improvement of the technique might be needed, we suggest that this technique should not be used as a first-line treatment for the management of chronic pain. MDPI 2019-05-21 /pmc/articles/PMC6572216/ /pubmed/31117314 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina55050185 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Opinion Pitsillides, Alexios Stasinopoulos, Dimitrios Cyriax Friction Massage—Suggestions for Improvements |
title | Cyriax Friction Massage—Suggestions for Improvements |
title_full | Cyriax Friction Massage—Suggestions for Improvements |
title_fullStr | Cyriax Friction Massage—Suggestions for Improvements |
title_full_unstemmed | Cyriax Friction Massage—Suggestions for Improvements |
title_short | Cyriax Friction Massage—Suggestions for Improvements |
title_sort | cyriax friction massage—suggestions for improvements |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6572216/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31117314 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina55050185 |
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