title: Integrating Swedish massage therapy with primary health care initiatives as part of a holistic nursing approach.
abstract: Nursing has long embraced a holistic approach to health care. Providing such an approach is also a goal embodied within many complementary therapy (CT) practices, such as Swedish massage therapy (SMT). Primary health care (PHC) reform initiatives as well often support a holistic approach to patient/client management. Presently, amongst the practices of nursing, a potential synergy between CTs and PHC domains has not as yet been adequately explored within the humanities and social/scientific literature. The purpose of this review is to address the potential of such a collaboration, as made feasible by incorporating an integrative medicine approach to enhance comprehensiveness of care, and in turn, holistic nursing.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Life Course and Aging, University of Toronto, 222 College Street, Suite 106, Toronto, Ont., Canada. kevinwillison2003@yahoo.ca
authors.forename: Kevin Donald
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Willison
mesh_terms: D018939:Holistic Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008405:Massage / Q000451:nursing*; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000379:methods*