Comprehensive and easy-to-read, this newly updated edition focuses on the essential information needed to start a career as a massage professional. Students will gain an understanding of the body and its functions and learn massage techniques and therapeutic skills, including specialized massage such as prenatal massage, massage during labor, lymph massage, neuromuscular therapy, reflexology, and more. Skills for client-therapist relations, communications, and promotions complete this well-rounded text to ensure a successful massage business. Recognized as a recommended resource by the National Certification Board for Massage and Bodywork, Milady's Theory and Practice of Therapeutic Massage features over 700 richly illustrated drawings and updated and expanded anatomy tables.
- ISBN10 1562534041
- ISBN13 9781562534042
- Publish Date 11 March 1999 (first published 12 December 1988)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 March 2006
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Cengage Learning, Inc
- Imprint Milady Publishing Co
- Edition 3rd Revised edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 720
- Language English