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Volume 18, Issue 1 , Pages 4-9 , February 2012

Feasibility and effectiveness of massage therapy for symptom relief in cardiac catheter laboratory staff: A pilot study

Shelly R. Keller
- Mayo Clinic Gonda Vascular Center, Mayo Clinic, 200 First St SW, Rochester, MN 55905, United States
Deborah J. Engen
- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Mayo Clinic, 200 First St SW, Rochester, MN 55905, United States
Brent A. Bauer
- Division of General Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, 200 First St SW, Rochester, MN 55905, United States
David R. Holmes Jr.
- Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, 200 First St SW, Rochester, MN 55905, United States
Charanjit S. Rihal
- Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, 200 First St SW, Rochester, MN 55905, United States
Ryan J. Lennon
- Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, 200 First St SW, Rochester, MN 55905, United States
Laura L. Loehrer
- Division of General Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, 200 First St SW, Rochester, MN 55905, United States
Dietlind L. Wahner-Roedler
- Division of General Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, 200 First St SW, Rochester, MN 55905, United States
- Corresponding author.

Study accrual flowchart. Sixty of 70 staff members in the cardiac catheterization laboratory (CCL) were eligible for a 10 week partial-crossover randomized massage therapy (MT) trial conducted in the

Study accrual flowchart. Sixty of 70 staff members in the cardiac catheterization laboratory (CCL) were eligible for a 10 week partial-crossover randomized massage therapy (MT) trial conducted in the workplace. Of these 60 participants, 50 were randomly assigned to either the 5 week MT arm (n = 25) or the 10 week MT arm (n = 25). A control group of 10 nonrandomized participants declined MT but agreed to complete function questionnaires.
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