Description

This richly illustrated text teaches the basic techniques of clinical massage therapy by embedding 550 full-color illustrations of internal structures directly into photographs of live models. Each muscle or muscle group is shown, along with surrounding structures, surface landmarks, and the therapist’s hands. Useful as a textbook of clinical massage and anatomy, this text can also be used as a practical patient communication tool. Basic clinical techniques such as compression, stripping massage, myofascial stretching and cross-fiber friction are included. Suggestions of draping options correspond to illustrations of draping techniques. Appendices include pain referral zones by region, Greek and Latin prefixes and suffixes, and a glossary of terms. Every “serious” massage therapist will want to have a copy of this on their shelf as a perpetual reference. It is so unique among all the massage books published TO DATE that massage instructors who have purchased a copy have said that this book could well become “THE” textbook in massage schools for illustrating effectively the integration of massage and anatomy. It has become our best-selling book since its release earlier this year, just by “word of mouth”!