Does Massage Work?

[pakewi]

@shaman

I was able to speak with a therapist to one of the top sprint groups on Sunday and one of the things were discussed was ARP. He has been a part of a variety of research, from regular EMS and acupuncture, to studies on massage, electroacupuncture, various supplements and other modalities, etc. and he said that when he met with the ARP guys back in the 90s they were unable to present any basis for their settings and when it was discussed that a similar product could be made for dramatically cheaper, they introduced the “protocols” that you must use for the system to work. Not to say EBM is bad and shouldn’t be used, but their basis was rather tenuous.

His general experience and information (from what he told me) was that it had effects similar to that of electro-acupuncture.

My question–not having much personal experience with either ARP of electro-acupuncture, is how their effects are much different since the basis for a lot of the ARP (from what I understand) is based upon acupuncture meridians and the like?

Maybe in the 90’s the basis simply was not there. Why not allowing a very normal learning curve by such judgements?

And,maybe sometimes sound eveyday experience exceeds any learning curve to an extent which is to create a hard to be filled gap over time.

Also many times all the need for more or less “scientific” proof only reflects a selfish resistance to the unknown.