Save Your Hands!: Injury Prevention for Massage Therapists - Softcover

Greene, Lauriann; Greene, Robert A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1883195039 ISBN 13: 9781883195038

Publisher: Infinity Pr, 1995

Synopsis

Save Your Hands! is the complete guide to injury prevention and self-care for massage therapists. Purchased by hundreds of massage schools across the U.S. and Canada for their students, the book has been the leading self-care manual for massage professionals and students in 7 countries for over 10 years. This ground-breaking, critically-acclaimed book has helped tens of thousands of massage therapists to understand the risk of massage-related injury and learn how to protect their most important tools - their hands - throughout a long, healthy massage career. All massage practitioners, from those first learning techniques to the most experienced therapists, can benefit from the practical, medically-sound advice provided in Save Your Hands. Massage therapy is a physically demanding career with a very high injury rate. Over 3/4's of practising massage therapists experience symptoms of injury at some point in their careers. Burn-out rates are so high that the average career in massage lasts only 7 years. Burnout and injury ARE preventable, if you know how to recognize the warning signs, change techniques and work habits, and seek early treatment. Save Your Hands will show you how to work smart instead of hard, to manage stress and pressure in the workplace and stay in shape to do this physical work, so you CAN have a long, successful massage career.

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Review

"Don't start massaging before reading this book! Lauriann . . . has researched the topic thoroughly and compiled an excellent text." -- Colin Morley, Australian Massage Therapy Association, AMTA Newsletter review

"This book will soon be required reading for every student, practitioner, teacher and Education Director in the massage field." -- -- David Palmer, Executive Director, TouchPro Institute of Chair Massage, author The Bodywork Entrepreneur

After clapping their hands in applauding the publication of this common sense book, massage therapists . . . owe it a careful reading. -- Rafael Tuburon, Editor, Massage Therapy Journal

Don't start massaging before reading this book! It should be compulsory reading for all therapists looking to work in the profession for most of their career. -- Australian Massage Therapy Association Newsletter, July 1996

Save Your Hands! is a readable, informative reference . . . The book should be read by all who perform massage therapy. -- Massage Therapy Journal, Summer 1996, review by Joseph Bosco, M.D.

This book should be essential reading for any massage therapist who is beginning to experience symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome. -- Massage Magazine, May/June 1997, review by Maja Evans

From the Publisher

A recently published study showed that over 75% of massage therapists encounter symptoms of injury during their careers. Save Your Hands! is the most complete and comprehensive source of information on injury prevention and self-care fo massage therapists available. In an easy-to-read, illustrated format, Save Your Hands will help you protect your investment in this rewarding career. Stay healthy with exercises and stretches designed specifically for massage therapists to keep you in shape to do massage, learn the warning signs of injury and treatments options to recover from injury, and find out how to deal with the stress and demands of massage school and a professional practise. To prevent injury, you need much more than just good body mechanics - you need to be armed with the knowledge you'll find in Save Your Hands! Save Your Hands! is used by hundreds of massage schools in seven countries as required or recommended reading.

Edition details

• Publisher: Infinity Pr
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1883195039
• ISBN 13: 9781883195038
• Binding: Paperback