All the subjects in the sample recorded significant improvements. An associated study of changes in the pain free range of movement following the treatment of muscle pain has not yet been analysed.
Subsequently, the following studies were done by the Department of Physiology in conjunction with Prof. M.Gregory from the Electron Microscopy unit of the University of Durban Westville.
Previous studies have suggested that massage provides a beneficial effect by local manipulative effects in increasing skin temperature and elevating skin and muscle blood flow.
This study investigated the changes in diameters of capillaries in skeletal muscle up to 6 days following deep transverse friction ("DTF") massage as against the Jet Therapy compressed air massage. The data confirmed that massage per se caused a rapid and significant increase in capillary diameters in skeletal muscle.
In the case of DTF there was an immediate significant increase of 18% in cross-sectional area reducing to 9% after 24 hours and -7% 6 days later. Jet Therapy caused an initial increase of 13% which rose to 22% after 24 hours and was still evident as a 4% increase after 6 days.
The study examined the fine structure and morphometrics of capillaries before and up to 6 days after pure air massage with Jet Therapy. In all cases, both external and lumenal capillary diameters were increased for the duration of the 24-hour test period.
It was shown that for any given capillary diameter in control tissue, the endothelial cell thicknesses of capillaries after Jet Therapy treatment is thinner.
As it was shown that there was no obvious ultra structural pathology, such thinning is probably a consequence of capillary dilation.
A study was conducted to measure the effect of Jet Therapy compressed air massage on the morphology of untraumatised skeletal muscle. Previous studies have shown that DTF causes a reversible injury characterised by myofibre oedema and subcontraction of myofibres, 2 types of inclusions and other reversible sarcoplasmuic alterations.
The morphometric and morphological results of this study suggest that Jet Therapy massage, even when applied at high pressure through a single hole 5mm applicator head, appears to cause less and more rapidly reversible damage to the tissues than conventional DTF therapy.
At the present time the fieldwork of a pilot clinical study on the effects of Jet Therapy treatment of diabetic foot ulcers has just been completed at the R.K Khan Hospital Chatsworth, Durban under the supervision of the chief surgeon Mr. Y. Desai and the consulting surgeon, Mr. U.K. Naidoo.
The results show that the addition of the Jet Therapy massage to the conventional treatment for foot ulcers provided a reduction of 49.8 days (or 44.1%) in hospital stay.
It is intended to follow-up this study with a second study dealing with neuropathic feet where higher patient numbers will be attainable.
Pictured Left: RK Khan Hospital in Chatsworth, Durban, South Africa
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A further pilot study is underway to confirm or repudiate the anecdotal claims for cellulite reduction and to establish the reliability of measurement of body fat using three different measuring devices and to establish the mechanism whereby the purported reduction in body measurement is achieved.
A group of 40 volunteer women, all within the ages of 30-50, are selected to undergo a course of 10 Jet Therapy cellulite removal treatments. The treatments are for one hour at a time, applied every third day by the same operator.
The volunteers are requested to make no material changes to their lifestyles and in a particular their eating habits and their normal exercise patterns.
At the commencement of the study each person will be weighed, and measurements will be taken at a fixed point of both thighs, established by a measurement in height by the subject standing in an upright position, bare footed.
ll participants will be measured using CT scan sections.