| Abstract |
Aging Society is occurring in many countries worldwide including Thailand. TTM has been believed that support health, well-being and improve immunity which relies on the balance of life energy in the elderly. Immunosenescence is aged-related decline of immunity, also change the number of immune cells. TTM is an alternative treatment using the thumb to apply deep massage on ten lines body. Nevertheless, the studies involving TTM and immunity improvement is still unclear. This study aims to investigate the status of immune cell in aging after TTM by using randomized controlled trial study. Participants aged 60 to 80 years (n=8) were randomly assigned to start with TTM and start with rest then crossing over with wash out 1 month. Then, the number of immune cells from participants were identified at baseline (Pre-, before), short term (S-, after within 60 mins) and long term (L-, after within 24 hr. at the end of once weekly interventions for 5 weeks) of TTM and Rest. Outcome measures obtained at Pre, S and L. The differences between TTM and Rest compared by using a repeated measure ANOVA with Bonferroni’s post-hoc test. The study showed significantly increasing of neutrophil and decreasing of NK cell after getting TTM within 60 mins (P = 0.017, P = 0.032, respectively). Additionally, the number of neutrophils from participants after received TTM 5 consecutive weeks were significantly decrease (P = 0.028). This suggested that TTM could affect to the number of immune cells that might involve in immune status of elderly. |
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