Basic Clinical Massage Therapy: Integrating Anatomy and Treatment (LWW Massage Therapy and Bodywork Educational Series)
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Basic Clinical Massage Therapy: Integrating Anatomy and Treatment (LWW Massage Therapy and Bodywork Educational Series)

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  • EAN: 9780781756778
  • Manufacturer: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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  • This superbly illustrated text familiarizes students with individual muscles and muscle systems and demonstrates basic clinical massage therapy techniques. More than 550 full-color illustrations of internal structures are embedded into photographs of live models to show each muscle or muscle group, surrounding structures, surface landmarks, and the therapist's hands. Students see clearly which muscle is being worked, where it is, where it is attached, how it can be accessed manually, what problems it can cause, and how treatment techniques are performed. This edition features improved illustrations of draping and includes palpation for each muscle.

    An accompanying Real Bodywork DVD includes video demonstrations of massage techniques from the book.

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  • Summary: Full of errors and soooo inorganized
  • Comment: Get the Body trail instead - Much, much better.
    The only god thing about this book is the hard cover, pathetic, no ?
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  • Summary: Great Book & DVD for Students
  • Comment: Nice illustration to learn Anatomy, great book for beginner students to self-study. This book includes DVD, that is a great help while practicing. I really wish the DVD has scene selections for a muscle under each sections of body.
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  • Summary: YOU HAVE TO BUY THIS BOOK! Period
  • Comment: This is undoubtedly a must have book that can easily be the sole resource on massage and anatomy that a massage therapist will EVER need. Every purchaser cannot be wrong! If you want a book that explains through graphic, precise pictorials and easy to follow techniques which muscles do what, you cannot go without this manual. An invaluable source when studying for the NCBTMB.

    A suitable companion for this gem is the "The Magic Touch: How to make $100,000 per year as a massage Therapist" by Meagan R. Holub LMT. Chapter 6, what I like to call the marketing gold mine, offers a simply easy marketing tactic, "While everyone else was trying to out-do each other with information, they forgot a basic of good image making: how to pull the buyers' eyes to your ad before they think to look at any others. If you can catch their first glance, they are more likely to call you first, even if they study the ads of others. It is initial attraction that sells your ad over 80% of the time." "The Basic Clinical Massage..." sets you up with practical massage techniques and creatively complete anatomy training. "The Magic Touch:.." gives you everything you need to take that superior education and put it to palpable use!
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  • Summary: A RNs thoughts on anatomy/massage technique pictures
  • Comment: This is a review of the earlier edition but the information here applies to this book as well.

    The best of many, many books I have used for physical therapy approach to major medical problems. This is the most workable book with, by far, the best medical illustrations for the professional and the amateur alike. I have used Dr. Janet Travell's books, which are the benchmark for all musculo-skeletal manuals, but this is the book I use to put massage, trigger point, and any other therapies to use. It is the best anatomy book I have ever used, in school or on the job. It is a very safe book. The incredible artwork defining the location of muscles is the most helpful aspect of this book. Also, it is a super value for a manual of this quality.

    I don't agree with another review saying this book is not for the novice. I feel the ease of understanding from the terrific pictures makes it so much easier than most books. You can follow the 'feel' of a muscle much easier when you are guided with anatomical details.

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  • Summary: Interesting pictures but very basic
  • Comment: This book was required for a class and I really enjoyed the visual 'description' it shows by overlaying the muscles and bones on the corresponding areas. I found some of the descriptions of origin, action and insertion a bit under developed. I really disliked the use of the child for modeling in the pictures, some of the pictures seemed a bit on the creepy side. The techniques employed/recommended for the muscles are very interesting and I have a few I am hoping to try out. Best thing about it, for me, was the pictures and being able to 'see' what it would look like inside the body.

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