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

摘要

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 >or= 750 and