This study aims to determine the effect of giving massage, physiotherapy and nutritional needs basedon adequacy rates increase endurance leg heart muscles in Road Racetour DeSingkarak Bicycle Racing Athlete. The sample this uses a total technique that is all athletesPelatnas De Singkarak athletes, amounting 10 people. findings include,1) There an massage muscle power, with average ratingof expe...

Introduction: Due to often excessive academic activities, some university students are affected by stress, anxiety and depression, which can negatively influence quality of life. The classical massage was tested as a strategy for improving quality of life, since it presents psychogenic effects that contribute to this. Objective: To evaluate the effects of classical massage on quality of life, i...

When I was a young lad in the 1930s, our family used to spend the summer holidays at a cottage in Milton Eonan, Glenlyon, Perthshire. There was no electricity and water was pumped up into the cottage from the Milton Burn by a contraption known as the Ram. Powered by the gravity flow of unlimited water from the burn above, it maintained an intermittent jet of water into the attic tank; or rather...

In a previous communication by one of us (Crile) resuscitation was at tempted by means of both direct and indirect cardiac massage, with and without artificial respiration, with and without intravenous saline infusion, and with and without the addition of adrenalin. The results of these experiments may be summarized as foUows: By cardiac massage alone animals were rarely resuscitated at any tim...

The theoretical knowledge and practical performance of 166 lay people attending a short cardiopulmonary resuscitation course were evaluated according to the American Heart Association standards. Before tt course no participant was able to perform even a bad attempt at cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Theoretical knowledge was good at the end of the course and at the refresher course six months la...

Various types of massages are reported to relieve stress, pain, and anxiety which are beneficial for rehabilitation; however, more comprehensive studies are needed to understand the mechanism of massage therapy. In this study, we investigated the effect of massage therapy, alone or in combination with infrared heating, on 3 different aspects: physical, physiological, and psychological. Twenty-e...

ONE method of overcoming ventricular fibrillation is to produce cardiac arrest by perfusion of the coronary circulation with potassium and restoring a normal rhythm by cardiac massage. Resuscitation of the hypothermic heart after potassium arrest frequently requires prolonged massage, but if hypertonic glucose is administered intravenously when the myocardium is in the "responsive phase", spont...

OBJECTIVES To assess the effect of two different physical therapy interventions in patients with stable coronary heart disease and non-cardiac chest pain. METHODS A randomized controlled trial was carried out at a university hospital in Norway. A total of 30 patients with known and stable coronary heart disease and self-reported persistent chest pain reproduced by palpation of intercostal tri...

Use of massage therapy by the general public has increased substantially in recent years. In light of the popularity of massage therapy for stress reduction, a comprehensive review of the peer-reviewed literature is important to summarize the effectiveness of this modality on stress-reactive physiological measures. On-line databases were searched for articles relevant to both massage therapy an...