Integrated Sports Massage Therapy is a highly illustrated evidence-based handbook which presents a wide range of effective sports massage techniques to cover any sports-related situation.
Anders Jelveus explains and applies effective techniques from a variety of disciplines of manual therapy, ranging from commonly used sports massage strokes to more advanced concepts for real-life effective sports massage treatments. The presented techniques serve as a great addition for any therapist seeking to work with athletes, and are suitable for pre-event, post-event, inter-event, and in remedial sports massage therapy.
This unique book offers a comprehensive presentation of sports massage therapy including:
- Sports massage history
- Basic sports massage strokes and work postures
- Sports massage applications
- Event-based sports massage treatment guidelines
- Sports-specific massage treatment recommendations
- Therapeutic muscle stretching techniques
- Therapeutic muscle stretching applied to specific muscle groups
- Positional Release Techniques (PRT)
- Acupressure and Tui Na techniques with applications
- Myofascial release techniques
- Connective tissue massage
- Lymphatic drainage massage
- Myofascial Trigger Point etiology and treatment techniques
- Sports injuries
- Athletic taping
- Remedial Sports massage applications
- Athletic self massage techniques.
Audience
The book is suitable for all manual therapy students and practitioners, whether novice or advanced, including:
- massage therapists,
- physical therapists,
- osteopaths,
- chiropractors,
- naprapaths,
- naturopaths and
- acupuncturists.
Contents
- 1 Sports massage, an introduction
- 2 Work postures and hand placements
- 3 Sports massage applications
- 4 Examples of event-based sports massage treatments
- 5 Sports massage applications for different sports
- 6 Soft tissue stretching in sports massage
- 7 Applied stretches to common muscle groups
- 8 Positional release techniques applied in sports massage
- 9 Acupressure and Tui-Na in sports massage
- 10 Myofascial release techniques and connective tissue massage
- 11 Myofascial Pain Syndrome - myofascial trigger points
- 12 Sports injuries
- 13 Taping
- 14 Soft tissue treatment techniques for maintenance and remedial sports massage
- 15 Self massage and myofascial release techniques for the athlete
About the Author
Anders Jelveus, DN leg. Naprapat MTOM LAc CMT , International educator in manual therapies; Founder of Swedish Health Institute, Los Angeles, CA, US.
Product Details
- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: Churchill Livingstone; 1 edition (May 23, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0443101264
- ISBN-13: 978-0443101267
- Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 7.4 x 0.6 inches
List Price: $49.95