Title
Massage therapy improves neurodevelopment outcome at two years corrected age for very low birth weight infants.

Author(s)
Procianoy RS, Mendes EW, Silveira RC

Published
Dec, 2009

Published In
Early Hum Dev. 2009 Dec 18

Abstract
BACKGROUND: Long term effects of massage therapy in very preterm newborns infants are still to be described. Few studies evaluated neurodevelopment just at six months, and included late preterm infants. OBJECTIVE: To study the effect of massage therapy on neurodevelopment of very low birth weight infants at two years corrected age. STUDY DESIGN: Newborns with birth weight between >/=750 and

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