Methods: 50 healthy students of both genders with the age group of 18 to 25 years were prospectively added to this single group pre-post study. Baseline assessments included systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, pulse rate, oxygen saturation, surface body temperature and random blood glucose level. Swedish full-body massage was given to the participants. Assessments were repeated after the end of the intervention.

Results: Post-assessments revealed no noticeable change in Systolic blood pressure, pulse rate and oxygen saturation after massage. However, there is a significant reduction in diastolic blood pressure (p<0.001), random blood glucose level (p<0.001) and surface body temperature (p<0.001) showed a significant increase.

Conclusions: we have demonstrated a positive impact of Swedish full-body massage on cardiovascular parameters. However, given the design of the present study, future case-control studies should confirm our results.