Discover how to use your knowledge of massage to support clients with specific medical conditions!
Step-by-Step Massage Therapy Protocols for Common Conditions is intended to give massage therapy students and practitioners the knowledge and confidence to work safely with clients who have medical conditions. Relying on her many years of massage experience, Charlotte Michael Versagi outlines the skills needed to assess wisely, think critically, and use techniques already learned and practiced in massage school to work with these clients. The text provides practical, thorough protocols to help therapists support their clients while steering them away from doing any harm.
This text prepares the student in a massage program, or the therapist already practicing, to become an effective member of a client’s healthcare team. The book is designed so that the therapist can quickly understand the basics of the condition, the most common strategies for medical treatment, and how to relieve pain and help the client deal with the condition.
The book’s easy-to-navigate organization helps create an effective learning experience, presenting the foundation for protocols in chapters 1-5, and then turning to specific conditions (arranged alphabetically) in chapters 6-44. Each condition chapter presents a comprehensive yet succint explanation of the condition—what causes it, how it develops, how it is treated, and how the massage therapist can assess the condition's effect on the client. The central feature of each of these chapters is the Massage Therapy Protocol, which presents in tabular form a suggested protocol for supporting healing with massage therapy.
Very helpful
This is an excellent resource for therapists. It is well-written and tackles difficult topics with a straight forward, and well documented, guide for both the experienced and novice therapists. I have purchased multiple copies for our clinics.
Very Useful Book
I'm not a professional massage therapist. However, I am finding this book to be very helpful. I like learning about non-invasive ways to treat so many medical conditions. The "homework" sections offer loads of information about self-care. I've even showed the book to various friends -- so they can seek out a massage therapist who might help alleviate their suffering. There's a friendly accessible tone here. I can tell that Versagi knows her stuff. This book is a good addition to my reference shelf. I'll turn to it again and again, I'm sure.
Perfect
If you need to review or know these muscles, this is the book for you. Very detailed, pictures amazing.
A Must Have for ALL Massage Therapists!
I can't get enough of this manual! Virtually everything a therapist needs to give a client with any of these conditions the best, safest, most effective massage is at your fingertips! This manual is a must have in your reference material. It gives me the confidence I need to enter a session with a client knowing I will "do no harm". Great Job Charlotte Michael Versagi!!!!!
Great resource-even for lay people
I am not a massage therapist, but find this book to be extremely valuable. It is an incredible source of information. Very insightful and informative in helping me understand what is really going on with my body- and what to do (or ask my therapist to do)to make me feel as healthy as possible. I refer to it often and recommend it to friends who want to understand their bodies in a more complete way.
書名 Step-by-step massage therapy protocols for common conditions
著者 Charlotte Michael Versagi
索書號 WB537/V561/2012
出版者 Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISBN 9780781787154 (pbk.)
出版年 2012
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