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• TITLE: Usefulness of a Newly-Developed Device, Power Tree®, for Body Massage: Evidence from a Medical Evaluation

  AUTHORS: Kentaro Ishii, Mayumi Kotani, Akihito Fujita, Shinichi Moriwaki

  KEYWORDS: Dermal Collagen Score, Hand Massage, Power Tree® Salivary Amylase, Skin Temperature, STAI

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Cosmetics, Dermatological Sciences and Applications, Vol.4 No.3, June 3, 2014

  ABSTRACT: We investigated the effectiveness and usefulness of a novel tool: the Power Tree?, for body massage in 10 healthy female volunteers (age range, 24 - 55 years; mean age, 40.5 years) by evaluating several dermatological and psychological parameters, such as the amount of dermal collagen, the skin temperature, the level of salivary amylase and the scores on the State-Trait Anxiety Index (STAI). After 60-minute Power Tree?-mediated body massage, both the dermal collagen score determined from the DermaLab? images and skin temperature measured by infrared thermography were found to have increased significantly in several body sites compared to those before the treatment (p