Massage mastery : from student to professional
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia, PA :
Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott
Williams & Wilkins ,
c2013.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Massage from past to present
- 2. Massage equipment and environmental considerations
- 3. Sanitation, hygiene, and safety
- 4. The therapeutic nature of massage
- 5. Massage cautions and contraindications
- 6. Ethics and the law
- 7. The therapeutic relationship
- 8. Professional communication
- 9. Your massage career
- 10. Foundation skills for therapeutic massage
- 11.Body mechanics and self-care
- 12. Assessment, treatment planning, and documentation for a wellness massage
- 13. Swedish massage techniques
- 14. Seated massage
- 15. Spa therapies and other approaches
- 15. Hydrotherapy
- 17. Eastern approaches
- 18. Energetic approaches
- 19. Assessment, treatment planning, and documentation for health care massage
- 20. Myofascial and deep tissue approaches
- 21. Proprioceptive neuromuscular approaches
- 22. Musculoskeletal injury and massage
- 23. Massage for chronic pain conditions and selected pathologies
- 24. Massage for special populations