Purpose This study aimed to examine the effects of aromatherapy massage on neuropathic
pain severity and quality of life (QoL) in patients suffering from painful diabetic neuropathy …

Objective to determine massage lavender essential oil on neuropathic pain and quality of
life in diabetic patients. Methods A randomized three-group control trial with the pre-post …

Chronic pain consumes approximately $70 billion per year and affects some 80 million
Americans. Increasingly, aromatherapy has been used as part of an integrated …

Purpose: Older adults living in long-term care experience high rates of chronic pain.
Concerns with pharmacologic management have spurred alternative approaches. The …

Aim To investigate the effects of aromatherapy massage on pain, functional state and life
quality of elderly individuals with knee osteoarthritis. Methods This controlled and …

The Western perspective on health care has been focused on medications for treatment of
health care conditions. It was common for pain to be treated with various levels of opioids …

This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of aromatherapy massage on knee pain and
functional status in subjects with osteoarthritis. The study was designed as a non …

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of relaxing music on pain intensity in
patients with neuropathic pain. A quasi-experimental study, repeated measures design was …

Nonpharmacologic interventions for symptom management in patients with rheumatoid
arthritis are underinvestigated. Limited data suggest that aromatherapy massage and …

BACKGROUND For the past 10 years, clinical aromatherapy has been used by nurses as an
enhancement of nursing care in many parts of the Western world, such as the United …