RESULTS
Among the ten subjects who satisfied the selection criteria, eight were female patients with no personal illness aged 50-65. On average, they Body Mass Index (BMI) 23 tall with the respiratory rate of 21 times per minute and the average heart rate of 86 times per minute. Their average systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure equaled 112 mmHg and 75 mmHg, respectively. In terms of their headache-related information, the majority of the participants suffered from severe headaches having a considerable impact on their job 3 times per week on average, each of which lasted approximately 3 hours one week. To alleviate their symptoms, two patients would buy a paracetamol (acetaminophen) 500 mg from a pharmacy, while six would not take medicine and two patients treat Traditional Thai massage. On average, the subjects scored 24 on the stress self-assessment. The results are shown in Table 1.
Table 2 shows the intensity of headache and the CROM before and after the administration of the court-type traditional Thai massage. It was found that the intensity of headache on the VAS reduced by 2.7 with the pre-treatment and post-treatment average scores of 6.800.78 and 4.100.99, respectively. The alleviation of headache intensity
was statistically significant at p < 0.05. In terms of the CROM, the score of extension increased statistically significantly from 16.491.32 to 18.031.30 at p < 0.05. Also, the scores of flexion, left-lateral flexion, and right-lateral flexion went down statistically significantly from 2.950.75 to2.180.98, from 6.561.65 to 4.811.73, and from 5.811.22 to 4.191.35, respectively.