Ebook Info
- Published: 2016
- Number of pages: 816
- Format: PDF
- File Size: 105.41 MB
- Authors: Sandy Fritz
Description
Success in massage therapy begins with a solid foundation in the fundamentals! Mosby’s Fundamentals of Therapeutic Massage, 6th Edition helps you build the skills you need, from assessing problems and planning treatment to mastering massage techniques and complementary bodywork. Case studies bring concepts to life, and guidelines to professionalism include topics such as ethics, legal issues, and best business practices. ‘How-to’ videos on an Evolve companion website demonstrate manipulation techniques, body mechanics, positioning and draping, and more. If you want to prepare for certification exams and succeed in practice, this resource from massage therapy expert Sandy Fritz is your text of choice.
Reviews
All four tapes in the series are just over an hour of material total. (approx. 20 minutes each after the titles and intros) It uses a lot of unspecified and inaccurate “jargon.” Listen closely to the terms and words used in tapes 3 & 4. The first tape is the most bizarre material I have ever seen in my 45 years as a massage therapist and registered nurse (I am 65 and became a CMT at 20 years of age a RN at 25). In my opinion the draping information presented by the obese, older woman in the black “outfit” verges on mentally pathological, as in obsessive compulsive. As presented the positioning, “packing” with bolsters and the elaborate “costuming” of the client will take much of the one hour, that could be used to actually care for the client. Every serious student of massage should view, share and discuss this material as evidence of how weird massage education became in this time period. I believe the author had some personal issues and was attempting to impose them on those viewing the videos. Impressionable novice student therapists may have been severely damaged by this material in my opinion. Please buy any copy you can, view it, become amused and appalled, then archive it so it will not be repeated or destroy it to prevent is being taken as factual. The five stars are based on it needing to be viewed by every reasonable practitioner and every knowledgeable massage client.
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