World Journal of
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences

EFFECT OF BACK MASSAGE IN CHEMOTHERAPY PATIENTS

*T. S. Christal Jancy, Dr. Jeyalekeshmi S. and Dr. Arzta Sophiya

ABSTRACT

One of the most primal and spontaneous ways in which humans offer support to another who is ill or suffering has been through touch. Florence Nightingale, founder of the modern nursing profession, recognized this and regarded caring touch as an essential ingredient of good nursing care. Indeed, touch as a simple expression of interpersonal caring – without technique or manipulation of tissue – is now known to evoke powerful salute genic responses in the body and mind of the recipient. While various forms of therapeutic manipulation of soft tissue have been practiced across cultures for thousands of years, Swedish (also referred to as „„classical??) massage is the most common form in the West and is the core of most massage training programs. Swedish massage was developed in the 19th century by Per Henrik Ling and introduced as a health care modality in the United States (US) in the 1850s by George and Charles Taylor, two physicians who had studied in Sweden.

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