Eine kleine Fallstudie mit 14 jungen Menschen im Alter von 15 bis 17 Jahren mit ADHS ergab, dass taktile Massage dazu beitragen kann, Hyperaktivität und Impulsivität zu reduzieren, die Aufmerksamkeit zu verbessern und das Einschlafen zu erleichtern
https://www.gu.se/en/news/tactile-massage-helped-young-people-with-adhd
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>In the study, 14 young people aged from 15 to 17 years with a diagnosis of ADHD were offered tactile massage once a week for 10 weeks. The massage was given in Trollhättan or Uddevalla, by certified massage therapists according to a specific massage protocol. Tactile massage is a soft and pronounced massage, given with slow and predetermined movements following a specific structure.
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>Twelve of the 14 young people completed the entire treatment. They were asked to rate their mood and symptoms of ADHD before, during and after treatment. The young people’s guardians were also asked how they felt about their child’s well-being in different ways, before and after treatment.
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>Positive effects
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>The results show that hyperactivity, impulsivity and attention deficit were clearly reduced. The treatment also reduced irritation and defiant tendencies. At follow-up, three months after the end of treatment, some of the positive effects seemed to remain.
>Sleep problems are more than twice as common among young people with ADHD, compared to their peers. Several of the young people described that it had become much easier to fall asleep at night after receiving the tactile massage
Paper: [Positive effects of tactile massage for adolescents with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) – A small scale study – ScienceDirect](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1744388124000823?via%3Dihub)
Small scale, self-reported, single arm…
I’d take it with a grain of salt.
Crazy, less anxiety makes ADHD symptoms easier to manage
Cool, now do an RCT with mindfulness based stress reduction as a comparison group and see if you can just see results with paced breathing.
Anecdotally, I like tactical massage as well as my son. Both ADHD. Definitely think this should be studied further and looked into therapeutically.
“Breaking: study with no statistical significance and biased methodology shows that exposure to stimuli makes you more used to them and massage is relaxing”