Cohesively organized and reader friendly, Introduction to Massage Therapy provides the fundamentals students need to develop as massage therapists. This new text gives readers a well-rounded and informed understanding that will help build their professional expertise.

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This best selling pathology text is now available in a fully updated, full color third edition. Vibrant illustrations and photographs bring concepts to life and help readers understand and retain the material.

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The second edition of this groundbreaking handbook demystifies the crucial but under-examined issues of establishing professional boundaries in the manual therapies.

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The Third Edition of Hands Heal provides the information manual therapists need for effective patient documentation and communication with the traditional medical environment.

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Hands Heal Essentials is devoted to the “how and why” of charting wellness sessions. Reader-friendly and concise, it’s an ideal guide for massage therapists who are not subject to extensive treatment recordkeeping and insurance billing requirements.

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This cutting-edge text leads readers through a deductive reasoning process for developing safe and individualized massage therapy protocols for clients receiving drug therapy. Providing comprehensive coverage of clinical pharmacology, readers will learn a practical method for assessing the effects of drug therapies on their clients and its relationship to massage therapy.

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Are you considering establishing a Massage Therapy Program or revamping your existing program at your institution? If so, this Curriculum Guide describes the typical requirements for a Massage Therapy educational program in the United States and will help you determine feasibility, requirements, and process for setting up a program.

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This textbook provides instruction on administering spa treatment services - services massage therapists are providing with increased frequency, as they help practitioners gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace. This book fills a need for a resource that covers the foundation, core treatments and advanced treatments of spa bodywork.

The spa techniques presented in the text are predominantly "dry room" techniques (treatments that do not require running water) which are easier for programs to implement and make part of a standard curriculum.

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The first practice-based book on aromatherapy as it applies to massage, written especially for professional massage practitioners or students, to cover their specific needs and concerns. This book is designed to give practitioners useful answers to questions about aromatherapy that usually only comes from years of experience in actually using aromatherapy with massage clients.

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The Third Edition of The Balanced Body offers you more resources to master deep tissue and neuromuscular massage in order to present your clients with a complete integrated approach to massage. Use this book as a teaching manual and reference for a systematic training program for deep tissue and neuromuscular therapy and other massage modalities. The series of lessons within the book cover sequential, progressive massage therapy for the entire body to help you to create an integrated treatment plan.

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Written in plain, simple language, this book is a great study guide for massage therapists taking National Certification Examinations or state or local exams. The author restates the topics and concepts covered on the National Exams in a straightforward way for easy retention and comprehension. The text emphasizes memorization and repetition as effective study methods and includes test-taking tips, positive affirmations, and cartoons to ease apprehension about the exam. End-of-chapter practice questions help readers review material.

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This book provides a complete overview of the concepts and techniques that massage therapists, physical or occupational therapists, and other healthcare professionals need to know in order to perform manual therapy on children—especially those with disabilities. The author fully covers the applications of massage therapy for children ages 2 to 18.

Pediatric Massage Therapy, Second Edition is well written, well researched, and expertly illustrated to provide a clear, demonstrative guide to pediatric massage. Topics include massage in healthy emotional development, managing psychological stress, physical therapy, and home healthcare. Real-life examples and anecdotes from hands-on therapists help readers relate to specific applications.

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This best-selling business manual for massage therapists and body workers is now in its Third Edition. Fully updated and revised, the manual covers the major aspects of building and maintaining a successful practice. It introduces practical yet innovative methods to increase profits, develop a strong customer base, and enhance communications with clients. Topics include marketing, client retention, professionalism, referrals, business planning, insurance billing, ethics, and time-management, designing promotional material, networking and more. The book includes numerous charts and checklists, as well as reproducible business forms. Information on other helpful resources is provided along with contact information for major health care professional associations, business organizations and independent living resources.

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This groundbreaking work on ethics addresses the difficult, confusing, and seldom-discussed but often-troubling dilemmas confronting touch therapy practitioners. By honestly describing the issues, identifying clear principles, naming specific resources, and using stories straight from the treatment room, the authors have written a book to guide, support, and inspire both students and seasoned practitioners. This book belongs in the office of every bodywork practitioner and in the classrooms of every professional training school. Features include useful and thought-provoking activities and exercises and real-life scenarios to intrigue students.

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Therapeutic Massage in Athletics was created specifically for certified athletic trainers, massage therapists, and physical therapists who work with athletes. It provides instruction on the application of clinical massage techniques to athletes.

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This brand new textbook presents massage therapy students and massage therapists with an overview of myofascial techniques and the underlying physiological principles behind those techniques. It is also useful for practitioners who wish to better understand how the muscle and connective tissues operate, how to apply bodywork to enhance CT functioning, and the advantages and disadvantages of the different approaches to myofascial massage.

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This textbook gives instructors and students a structured format for teaching and learning ethics and standards of practice for the massage therapy field. It provides a discussion of core industry standards of practice, laws, morals, rules and regulations for an ethical practice. It fulfills the increased demand of ethics textbooks from the addition of ethics courses to many curriculums, as well as maintains the student's attention with a lively writing style and effective visual approach to learning.

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This stunningly realistic text brings the basic techniques of clinical massage therapy to life by embedding illustrations of internal structures directly into photographs of live models. The result is a vivid representation of the individual muscles that are essential to understanding basic clinical massage therapy techniques. More than 550 vibrant, full-color images create a complete perspective, showing each muscle or muscle group, along with surrounding structures, surface landmarks, and the therapist’s hands.

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Everything you need to build a solid foundation in professional massage therapy – in one source!

Even the most advanced concepts are made readily understandable in this comprehensive text. Explore a full range of key topics including: history, anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, assessment, marketing, ethics, professionalism, terminology, hands-on techniques, pathology, documentation, and self-help – all highly relevant subjects that will make you a well-rounded, knowledgeable massage therapist.

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This dynamic reference is packed with the essential material needed to help therapists pass the National Certification Examination (NCE). Detailed, yet easy-to-understand, it reviews the concepts and principles tested on the National Exam and state, local and school exams. Major subject areas—Human Anatomy, Physiology, and Kinesiology; Clinical Pathology; Massage Therapy and Bodywork: Theory, Assessment, and Application; and Professional Standards, Ethics, and Business Practices—are covered and presented in a format that follows the most recent content outline from Candidate Handbook for the National Exams, ensuring a logical flow of information.

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This one-of-a-kind resource presents the knowledge and skills needed to provide safe and effective massage therapy to clients in the acute care setting. Focusing on massage pressure, site, and positioning adjustments, this easy-to-use text helps therapists organize patient data and plan massage sessions for any area of the hospital or acute care setting.

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The book suggests how massage therapists may use hydrotherapy treatments before and during massage sessions, or give these treatments to clients to do between sessions for faster and better results. The author presents real-life examples and case studies obtained through interviews with massage therapists, athletic trainers, physical therapists, naturopathic doctors, aquatic therapists, and medical doctors treating patients in a medical hydrotherapy setting.

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This best-selling text assists students in learning the essentials of body mechanics. Knowledge of this subject is essential for the aspiring massage therapist, as it teaches them how to care for themselves while practicing massage therapy.

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The best-selling pathology textbook for massage therapy is now in its Fourth Edition. The book presents detailed information on the etiology, signs and symptoms, and treatment of over 200 diseases and conditions, emphasizing how massage influences the disease and healing processes and how therapists can maximize the benefits while minimizing the risks.

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One Year to a Successful Massage Practice is designed for all massage practitioners, whether they are beginning their business or need to revitalize it. This new text utilizes no-cost and low-cost marketing methods in a week-to-week planning format.

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Teaching Massage looks at techniques and practices that are common to teaching all adult learners and focuses on the unique challenges of teaching in a massage therapy program. A different massage educator writes each chapter or section so that the practical experiences of a number of people inform the text. These educators are some of the most noted professionals in the field, and some of their textbooks have profoundly improved the content offered in massage programs. The textbook accompanies an online instructor training program to provide structure for an instructor seeking to improve his or her teaching skills.

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Drug Handbook for Massage Therapists presents individual drug information in an alphabetical quick reference for practitioners. This new reference gives practitioners a concise listing of drugs to help them make decisions in treatment and application of massage and bodywork. Each entry is listed by generic name and includes brand name, pharmacodynamics, side effects and adverse reactions, and massage considerations.

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This best-selling business manual for massage therapists and body workers is now in its Fourth Edition. Fully updated and revised, the manual covers the major aspects of building and maintaining a successful practice. It introduces practical yet innovative methods to increase profits, develop a strong customer base, and enhance communications with clients. Topics include marketing, client retention, professionalism, referrals, business planning, insurance billing, ethics, and time-management, designing promotional material, networking and more. The book includes numerous charts and checklists, as well as reproducible business forms. Information on other helpful resources is provided along with contact information for major health care professional associations, business organizations and independent living resources.

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This best-selling text assists students in learning the essentials of body mechanics. Knowledge of this subject is essential for the aspiring massage therapist, as it teaches them how to care for themselves while practicing massage therapy.

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Plain & Simple Guide to Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork Examinations, 2nd edition, prepares students for the National Certification Examination (NCE), the Massage & Bodywork Licensing Exam (MBLEx) offered by the Federation of State Massage Therapy Boards (FSMTB), or their particular state's examination. The organization of this book is based primarily on the content areas of the NCE and the MBLEx and is organized in a logically sequential manner, much the same as that followed by many massage schools: learn the scientific information about the body before learning to work on the body, and learn how to conduct yourself and your business affairs as a professional massage therapist.

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Pathology A to Z: A Handbook for Massage Therapists, Third Edition, focuses on pathology needs for massage therapists and is organized alphabetically according to diseases. It covers more than 400 conditions encountered by massage therapists and provides descriptions followed by causes, signs and symptoms and the risk factors, cautions, and recommendations to the therapists. Features include marginal notes providing more information on the topic presented, color illustrations showing some common skin conditions, a section on strategies for prevention of infection and for safe practice, and coverage of side effects of common drugs.

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Comfort Touch: Massage for the Elderly and the Ill is a textbook designed to inform the caregiver who is interested in bringing the benefits of touch to a broad range of people in need. It will give the reader the confidence to practice massage in a variety of settings, including hospices, hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and home care.

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Nurturing Massage for Pregnancy is a textbook for massage students and certified massage therapists who treat clients who are pregnant or laboring, or who have recently given birth. The book focuses on general soft-tissue and Swedish massage and assumes the reader is already familiar with those techniques as well as the basics of kinesiology and anatomy and physiology. The book also integrates myofascial release and trigger point techniques, as well as occasional complementary bodywork methodologies, such as the use of breath and visualizations, acupressure, aromatherapy and hydrotherapy.

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Hot Stone Massage: A Three-dimensional Approach guides the professional massage therapist in how to give a safe, effective and all encompassing hot stone massage. This book is an easy-to-follow manual to this ancient, exquisite art. It covers every aspect required to administer a flowing hot stone massage.

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Disease Handbook for Massage Therapists is a quick reference for practicing massage therapists who need to immediately evaluate and make decisions on how to work with clients in the context of medical conditions. This advanced book restates existing knowledge and presents it concisely for practitioners making on-the-spot decisions for their clients.

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Massage for Orthopedic Conditions introduces massage techniques for orthopedic conditions, promoting the alignment of soft tissue relating to pain and dysfunction. An essential manual for clinical massage therapy, it contains brief descriptions of rationale behind orthopedic massage, mechanisms of injury to and repair of soft tissue, and anatomy of each body area. This text includes detailed assessment for each body region, discusses common lesions, and provides illustrated instructions on how to administer this scientifically based style of massage. Based on traditional orthopedic assessment protocols, coverage includes range of motion, passive and isometric testing, and tests that determine the severity of a condition or injury.

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This is the most comprehensive study guide for any massage student or practitioner preparing for the NCETM, NCETMB, or MBLEx exam. The book contains an introduction to the different exams, as well as test taking tips (on bookmark). New to this edition is an online Pre-Test that students are encouraged to take before working through the text, as well as several ancillary games, exercises, and anatomy flashcards, and customizable flash cards, all designed to reinforce important concepts. Answers to all practice tests from the book are online as well. Instructor materials include numerous test generator questions.

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This handbook demystifies the important issues of establishing professional relationships in the manual therapies. The author uses humor, compassion, and humanity to present this complicated content in terms that are highly readable and engaging. The book includes real-life examples and practical solutions to dilemmas and sensitive situations that all bodyworkers face in their everyday practice.

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This is the anatomy and physiology text written especially for students and practitioners of massage therapy. Informative and relevant, the second edition of The Massage Connection is written in clear, concise, easy-to-follow language that gives your students the science they need to know.

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Written for physical therapists, massage therapists and occupational therapists, this text introduces an evidence-based clinical reasoning process for incorporating massage into therapeutic practice. The authors instruct readers in how to identify impairments, select and apply appropriate massage techniques, and integrate massage with other treatments. The book integrates a wide variety of techniques into a single problem-solving format consistent with the APTA's "Guide to Physical Therapist Practice", and features superb photographic illustrations, boxes, charts, figures, and clinical examples.

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Functional Anatomy was written to help students of human movement and bodywork understand how anatomical structures work together to create motion. This understanding is essential to students preparing for careers as fitness and sports professionals, who are routinely called upon to analyze complex movement patterns in order to maximize the athlete's performance and prevent injury. Functional Anatomy is unique in that the structures of the body are not merely defined, but explored in terms of their relationships to other structures. The first three chapters in the book describe how the body is put together and how it achieves movement. The remaining six chapters focus on specific body regions, utilizing a consistent template for ease of use and quick access to information.

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The Psychology of the Body explores the intricate connections between the mind and body, and the underlying psychological factors that can influence the massage therapist-client relationship.

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This stunningly realistic text provides a general overview of individual muscles that are essential to understanding basic clinical massage therapy techniques. Superior full-color illustrations make this text a one of a kind reference.

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This teaching manual and reference is a systematic training program for deep tissue and neuromuscular therapy along with several other massage modalities. A series of lessons help massage therapists create treatment plans using deep tissue and neuromuscular techniques.

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This unique guide shows health professions students how to "win at the game of school." Working with content that is fun and easy to learn, you'll gain the skills needed to succeed in your studies and in your career as a health professional.

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This innovative resource introduces the essential techniques of orthopedic massage and provides clear, practical guidelines for aligning soft tissue in the treatment of pain and dysfunction.

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Stedman's Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing, 5th Edition has been thoroughly updated to include over 51,000 entries with expanded representation of medical terminology used in over 30 of today's fastest growing health profession areas. In addition, this new edition contains more comprehensive inclusion of entries suited for the Nursing field, with correct terminology for all Nursing students and practitioners. Also new to this edition are audio pronunciations for nearly every term, new Primal Pictures of anatomy images, and enhanced appendices including NANDA, NIC, and NOC. Over 40 specialty consultants for Health Professions and Nursing (domestic and international) have contributed to the development of this new edition, making this publication the preferred quick-reference for students and practitioners alike.

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This quick reference guide introduces over 400 conditions that massage therapists may encounter.

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