Trigger Point Therapy (Natural Health Solutions, #3)
by Dermot Farrell
Massage (Massage: A Career at Your Fingertips)
by Martin Ashley, Jd and J D Ashley
For practitioners of massage therapy, sports massage, remedial massage, and physical therapy, soft tissue release is a powerful tool in treating chronic pain conditions such as shoulder impingement, tennis elbow, and iliotibial band friction syndrome. Soft tissue release also aids post-surgical recovery and is used in the treatment of highly trained athletes, dancers, and musicians who wish to tackle those small but key tissue areas needed to maintain and improve their performance. The soft ti...
Medical Massage Care's Massage Exam Essentials
by Philip Martin McCaulay
Medical Massage Care's Massage Exam Essentials outlines the knowledge needed to pass the therapeutic massage licensing and certification exams, including the FSMTB MBLEx and the NCBTMB NCETM and NCETMB. The amount of material that a massage therapist needs to know can be overwhelming. This publication summarizes the material that can easily be tested in the form of a multiple choice question, which is the material most likely to appear on an exam; and provides tips for the exam-taking strategy...
For the past ten years, Andy Rosenfarb has successfully used acupuncture and Chinese medicine to treat a wide range of eye conditions. His treatments include moxibustion techniques, tuina (massage), microcurrent stimulation, Chinese herbs, and qigong exercises, along with essential acupuncture where essential oils are placed on acupuncture points. The culmination of his work which includes a recent pioneering study involving metabolic testing is this handbook for healing the kinds of conditions...
Shiatsu is an ancient and widely practised form of Oriental massage which seeks to harmonize the body's vital energy, Chi. By applying pressure to individual accupoints along the various meridian lines within the body using fingertips, thumbs, knuckles, elbows, knees and sometines feet, Shiatsu has a deeply relaxing effect on the body and produces an overall sense of well-being. This compact and guide aims to tell the reader everything that they may need to know about the healing power of Shiats...
