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Record W4396566082 · doi:10.5539/gjhs.v16n5p51

The Benefits of Breast Massage: A Qualitative Study

2024· article· en· W4396566082 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Ryan M. Brown, Marianne Wong

Bibliographic record

VenueGlobal Journal of Health Science · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicComplementary and Alternative Medicine Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMassageMedicinePhysical therapyQuality of life (healthcare)Alternative medicineNursing

Abstract

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Massage therapy has grown as a profession, and its use in the traditional medical setting is rapidly increasing. Massage therapy has been shown to have positive physical, psychological, and biochemical effects. The aim of this study is to review the reasons patients choose breast massage therapy and the benefits of breast massage therapy. Ten female patients of 18 years and older participated and completed the survey. Of the ten patients, the average age was 37.5 years. Most common reasons for choosing breast massage include: improve overall health (90%) and overall well-being (80%), relieve muscle tension (80%), reduce stress (70%), and increase size/firmness/elasticity (70%). Almost all patients reported an improvement in quality of life. Bust size increased for nine patients. Most patients reported a reduction in breast pain, reduction in breast swelling, increase in breast size, increase in breast firmness, improved skin elasticity, improved physical health, improved psychological health, and improved overall health and well-being. Breast massage has positive effects on physical and psychological health and well-being. Its use is increasingly sought after to improve breast health and overall health and wellness. Physicians, healthcare providers, and patients should consider breast massage therapy as complementary and alternative medicine.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.012
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.018
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.012
Threshold uncertainty score0.063

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0120.018
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0050.004
Scholarly communication0.0030.003
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0010.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.075
GPT teacher head0.477
Teacher spread0.402 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2024
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