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cover image - Sports & Exercise Massage,2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780323083829
Copyright: 2013
Publication Date: 02-20-2013
Page Count: 472
Imprint: Mosby
List Price: $65.99

Sports & Exercise Massage, 2nd Edition

by Sandy Fritz, MS, BCTMB, CMBE

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cover image - Sports & Exercise Massage,2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780323083829
Copyright: 2013
Publication Date: 02-20-2013
Page Count: 472
Imprint: Mosby
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Providing guidelines for applying massage to amateur and professional athletes, Sports & Exercise Massage: Comprehensive Care in Athletics, Fitness, & Rehabilitation, 2nd Edition helps you address the challenges of treating clients involved in sports, physical fitness, rehabilitation, and exercise. In-depth coverage describes common patterns for sports activities, such as running and throwing, and uses the principles of massage to focus on assessment techniques, indications, contraindications, and outcome goals. This edition includes a new chapter on stretching, hundreds of full-color photos of techniques, and an Evolve companion website with step-by-step videos demonstrating sports massage applications. Written by noted educator and massage therapy expert Sandy Fritz, this resource provides the proven massage techniques you need to manage common exercise and sports injuries and syndromes.

    • Comprehensive coverage includes all the essentials of sports and exercise massage in one resource, with topics such as theories of sports, fitness, and rehabilitation; a brief anatomy and physiology review; basic nutrition for fitness; a review of massage methods and detailed descriptions of therapeutic techniques that apply to sports massage, such as lymph drainage, care of acute injury, connective and deep tissue applications, and pain management; and discussions of categories of injury common to athletes: sprains, strains, wounds, contusions, joint injury, and more.
    • More than 600 full-color illustrations show procedures, concepts, and techniques.
    • Student-friendly features include chapter outlines and learning objectives, key terms, summaries, review questions, a glossary, and In My Experience boxes highlighting real-life situations in sports and exercise massage.
    • Case studies provide an opportunity to develop clinical reasoning skills.
    • Student resources on an Evolve companion website include videos demonstrating techniques, a stretching atlas, a general massage protocol, and additional case studies.
    • Expert author Sandy Fritz provides massage for professional athletes in many sports, and her school, the Health Enrichment Center, had a 13-year partnership with the Detroit Lions.
    • UPDATED photos and illustrations show techniques with more clarity than before.
    • NEW Stretching chapter shows how to use methods of stretching in a safe and beneficial manner.
    • UPDATED complete general protocol suitable for the common athlete is included on the Evolve companion website, featuring a video and a step-by-step guide that can easily be modified to meet the specific needs of athletic clients.
    • Added emphasis on treatment planning for athletic clients includes case studies and more In My Experience boxes describing Sandy Fritz’s real-life experiences with sports massage.
    • Expanded chapter on research supports evidence-informed practice, including research on fascia and kinesiotaping.
    • Additional orthopedic tests most commonly used by massage therapists are included to enhance your skills in assessment and referral.
  • Preface
    UNIT ONE: THEORY AND APPLICATION OF EXERCISE AND ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE
    1. The World of Sports and Exercise Massage
    2. What is Sports Massage
    3. Evidence for Sports Massage Benefit
    4. Kinesiology
    5. Fitness First
    6. Sport-Specific Movement
    7. Nutritional Support and Banned Substances
    8. Influences of the Mind and Body
    UNIT TWO: SPORTS MASSAGE: THEORY AND APPLICATION
    9. Indications and Cautions
    10. Assessment for Sports Massage and Physical Rehabilitation Application
    11. Review of Massage Methods
    12. Stretching  NEW!
    13. Focused Massage Application
    14. Unique Circumstances and Adjunct Therapies
    UNIT THREE: SPORT INJURY
    15. Injury in General
    16. Pain Management
    17. Common Categories of Injury
    18. Medical Treatment for Injury
    19. Systemic Illness and Disorders
    20. Injury by Area
    UNIT FOUR: CASE STUDIES
    21. Case Studies
    Glossary
    Index
  • Sandy Fritz, MS, BCTMB, CMBE, Founder, Owner, Director, and Head Instructor, Health Enrichment Center, School of Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork, Lapeer, Michigan
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