Contains topics to prepare the reader for the National Certification Exam or the State Massage Board exam.Accompanying workbook has exercises in multiple formats to enhance learning.Includes essential anatomy and physiology.Includes full-color photos of techniques.Written in a style that is easily understood by the nontraditional reader.End-of-chapter questions for discussion and review revised to include additional higher-level critical thinking exercises.Revised final chapter, covering business practices for finding employment or successful self-employment.Maintains the comprehensive coverage of Swedish massage techniques and repositions clinical massage techniques to the heart of the text. Now features all full-color Illustrations and photographs, including techniques and procedures.New chapter on massage for special populations including hospice, pre-natal, infant, elder, critically ill, and people with cancer plus lymph massage and clinical skills such as trigger point therapy, neuromuscular techniques and myofascial techniques.The final chapter has been revised to cover business practices for finding employment or successful self-employment. A new chapter discusses massage for special populations including pre-natal, infant, elder, critically ill, people with cancer, and hospice. Numerous career tracts are explored including massage in a spa environment and athletic massage. Classical massage is expanded with clinical techniques including neuromuscular and myofascial techniques, and lymph massage, combined to better serve the client by following therapeutic procedures. Full-color illustrations and photographs clearly illustrate techniques and procedures. Essential topics to the industry such as ethics, hygiene, communication skills, and body mechanics are discussed. A brilliant learning aidĮssential Anatomy is the closest thing you'll get to dissection - an essential tool for medical students and an engaging way to learn about how the body works.The Theory and Practice of Therapeutic Massage (5th edition) is the classic text in the massage industry including the essential knowledge and skills needed to become a successful, professional massage therapist, plus the essentials of anatomy and physiology. Other than that, there's a Bookmark tool if you just want to save specific parts you want to return to later and you can isolate the body view by part type (e.g. You can strip away layers of muscle and tissue to reveal what's under, which gives you a much better idea of how the body works rather than just reading it in a book. The Search function is what you'll need the most if you're studying although you can have a lot of fun simply exploring and rotating the body. Easy to examine the body in detailĮssential Anatomy is very easy to use. The only thing lacking are animations of the organs and muscles in action. If you need to find a specific bone, organ or muscle, you can simply search by body part and Essential Anatomy will highlight exactly where they are with helpful descriptions of each part does. The 3D models allow you to view and examine parts of the human body from any angle giving incredible detail that you'd normally only be able to experience via dissection. For medical student in particular, Essential Anatomy is a superb reference tool.
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