08/29/2025
🔥🔥New Research Study looking at Massage Therapy for People with Chronic Neck Pain 🔥🔥
The study is significant because of the large sample size (290 people with chronic neck pain). The study found that those who received massage therapy experienced reductions in pain-related disability and pain severity compared to a waitlist control group.
Specifically, the results showed:
- Reduced Disability: Participants in the massage therapy group had significant reductions in neck disability at both 1 and 3 months. They were also more likely to experience a clinically meaningful improvement in disability at 3 months.
- Reduced Pain: Pain severity was significantly reduced at 1, 3, and 6 months in the massage therapy group. A clinically meaningful decrease in pain severity was also more likely for those who received massage at 1, 3, and 6 months.
The study concluded that therapist-delivered massage therapy is an effective treatment for veterans suffering from chronic neck pain.
Munk, N., Daggy, J. K., Slaven, J. E., Foote, T., Garner, M., Evans, E., Laws, B. V., Matthias, M. S., & Bair, M. J. (2025). Therapist Delivered Massage for Veterans with Chronic Neck Pain: A Randomized Control Trial. Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.), pnaf118. Advance online publication.
AbstractPurpose. Chronic neck pain is challenging to treat in Veterans. Massage therapy benefit evidence for musculoskeletal pain is building and massage i
