Massoterapia e terapie manuali

Il metodo MAS

"In questo manuale ci siamo proposti di fornire delle indicazioni pratiche in modo da facilitare il trattamento della fascia. Siamo stati spinti a ciò dalle richieste degli allievi dei corsi sulla "Manipolazione Fasciale®", che hanno più volte richiesto di riportare in un libro la localizzazione topografica di tutti i punti e di descrivere le modalità del rispettivo esame motorio e le modalità di trattamento di ciascun punto. Per poter manipolare la fascia è indispensabile conoscere con precisione la localizzazione dei punti, eseguire correttamente l'esame motorio, affinché sia significativo, e posizionare correttamente il paziente durante il trattamento. Speriamo che questo nuovo libro possa aiutare tutti coloro che si apprestano ad apprendere la metodica della Manipolazione Fasciale® per ottenere risultati soddisfacenti, ma anche per comprendere meglio le basi anatomiche della fascia superficiale, profonda ed epimisiale, perché solo "Manus sapiens potens est" (Gli autori).

Ideal for both students and practitioners, this convenient and portable guide offers valuable information on how to effectively perform seated massage for both relaxation and therapeutic purposes. Providing comprehensive coverage of the technique, this practical resource explains the positional causes of dysfunction to maximize the benefit to the client. Discussions of the essential concepts of chair massage include selecting an appropriate chair, chair adjustments, body mechanics, applying pressure, skill building, intake forms, and hygiene. Content on business helps therapists improve their profits by covering topics like defining the target market, marketing for the table business, and contracts. Plus, specific routines for shoulders, neck/head, arm/hand, and low back regions are provided, along with full-color photographs to clearly demonstrate each technique.

The Second Edition of Introduction to Massage Therapy instills the essential skills and knowledge needed to become a professional massage therapist and excel as one. The authors integrate functional anatomy, physiology, and pathology with massage therapy techniques, helping you translate your knowledge of the underlying science into practice. Designed to prepare you for all aspects of massage practice, the text also covers communication and documentation, safety and self-care practices, and essential business concepts. This text offers a wealth of 3D anatomical information on the skeletal, muscular, and neurovascular systems, as well as surface anatomy. The Second Edition features expanded coverage of hydrotherapy, Eastern techniques, sanitation and hygiene, and HIPAA.

This is a comprehensive resource for focusing on returning injured athletes to their optimal performance! This book discusses exercise principles; muscle fatigue, muscle damage, and overtraining concepts; pathophysiology of overuse injuries; core evaluation in sports-specific testing; physiological basis of exercise specific to sport; and, special considerations for the athlete. Secial features such as evidence-based clinical application boxes provide the reader with a solid body of research upon which to base their practice.

Un tocco attento per ogni punto del corpo, dalla testa ai piedi, che può essere fonte di benessere e di piacere

This text gives instructors and students a structured format for teaching and learning ethics and standards of practice for massage therapy. Discussion topics include core industry standards of practice, laws, morals, rules, and regulations. It is an ideal textbook for ethics courses in massage therapy programs and prepares students for the ethics questions on the National Certification Exam. The book guides students through the process of putting ethical standards into practice, and explains what is expected of them in a professional setting. Role-playing exercises and example scenarios prepare students for situations and dilemmas that arise in practice.

This invaluable resource will help practitioners and students sort out differences and similarities between popular myofascial styles. Early chapters offer a solid review of anatomy and physiology as they relate to myofascial massage. Subsequent chapters focus on specific direct and indirect techniques and adjunctive self-care recommendations for clients, including the neuromuscular approach, hatha yoga and exercise to support myofascial massage, and the craniosacral approach. You'll learn the proper procedure for each myofascial technique and understand how to integrate myofascial massage into your bodywork practice. Whether you're looking to broaden your perspective of massage or find the myofascial approach and technique that best suits you and your client, "Myofascial Massage" is sure to help. Exquisite illustrations enhance learning and understanding by clarifying the techniques. Protocol boxes recommend sequences to follow during actual myofascial massage sessions. Guidelines provide useful strategies for implementing each myofascial approach and improving body mechanics and communication skills during your client sessions. First person experiences will add to your overall understanding of the techniques and their uses. Massage implications, included in each anatomy chapter (Chapters 2-4), help you to understand the influence of myofascial anatomy and physiology on practice. Questions for discussion and review at the end of each chapter encourage you to test your comprehension of the materials and think critically.

This textbook on sports massage was created specifically for massage therapists, certified athletic trainers, and physical therapists who work with athletes. The author is an experienced massage therapy and athletic training educator and practitioner, and provides instruction on how to apply clinical massage techniques to athletes. The text is uniquely focused on the use and integration of basic sports massage, myofascial, neuromuscular, and lymphatic facilitation to enhance an athlete's performance potential and treat common athletic injuries and conditions. The book includes numerous diagrams and pictures of techniques to help readers visualize specific concepts and procedures. From the Field Boxes contain quotes from professionals who practice sports massage. Case Studies present common athletic injury scenarios and descriptions of treatment protocols.

This massage therapy textbook enables readers to translate the fundamental knowledge base for massage into practical applications, both in class and in practice. Students will learn functional anatomy and physiology integrated with massage therapy techniques, in addition to exploring the fundamentals of history, medical terminology, pharmacology, assessment, documentation, ethics, pathology, self-care, and more. Now, every copy of "Introduction to Massage Therapy" comes with a DVD created by Real Bodywork.

Rispetto ad altre tecniche di medicina manuale che si basano sopratutto sulle disfunzioni articolari, la valutazione riportata in questo testo si basa sulle catene miofasciali.

Le tecniche del drenaggio linfatico manuale mirano a ristabilire il flusso linfatico tramite l'attivazione della circolazione

This innovative text and CD-ROM by Pfund and Zahnd is the first of its kind. The authors have produced a resource that successfully integrates principles of manual therapy examination and management with superb video images of procedures. The format of text combined with video provides unparalleled opportunity to learn both the underlying clinical reasoning and the technical execution of the selected manual therapy procedures. As evident throughout this book, contemporary manual therapy is multidimensional in its focus, inclusive of concepts and procedures from historically different approaches, and guided by clinical reasoning that is critical, reflective, open-minded and collaborative. In recognition of the biopsychological continuum with which patient presentations present, the authors set the scene by discussing the key concepts related to pain mechanisms. The procedures and associated reasoning within the book is then put forward as being appropriate for a pain state that is judged to be predominantly nociceptive. This is a critical clarification typically not addressed in manual therapy texts. It enables and even encourages therapists to appreciate the significant impact psychosocial circumstances can have on patients' presentations and places the procedures covered in the book in to a specific context of relevance. The procedures featured through the book are not put forward as the answer to all upper quarter pain states, rather they are recommended for use when the patient's disability and associated impairments are hypothesised to be emanating from the somatic or neurogenic tissues capable of eliciting such symptoms. The multidimensional focus of this book is also evident through its inclusion of joint, neural and muscle/soft tissue system examination and management procedures. The authors share a wealth of academic and clinical experience that is grounded in the biomedical sciences and practiced through an integrated, reasoning-based approach born out of their initial Orthopaedic Manual Therapy Kaltenborn and Evieath training and further developed through inclusion of theory and procedures from other manual therapy approaches. A unique product of the authors' strong science and clinical base is their integration of this knowledge in guiding the clinical reasoning associated with their recommendations for selection and progression of procedures. Readers are encouraged to consider the underlying physiology reflected in the patient's presentation with particular regard to the stage of tissue healing. This biomedical judgement is then balanced with attention to the specific characteristics of the physical impairments identified to form a hypothesis on which treatment selection and progression can be based. Guidelines and not recipes are suggested. A particular strength of this book is its capacity to assist readers' continued development of their own clinical reasoning. Clinical reasoning, or the thinking and decision making associated with clinical practice, requires an organization of knowledge that is contemporary with clear links to its clinical significance. The biomedical theory covered at the start of this book reflects the current state of knowledge in these topics with detailed discussion of the associated clinical implications. Readers' organization of clinical knowledge is then further promoted through the presentation of differentiating physical examination procedures available to narrow down the incriminating physical impairment of a given disability. In addition to its ability to promote clinical reasoning and not simply examination and management procedures, a feature of this book that the authors must be congratulated for including is its attention to self-management. Patient self-management is essential for long-term success with manual therapy. As implied through this book, manual therapy examination and initial treatments are critical to advance the hypotheses formed through the subjective examination. Skilled assessment of physical dysfunction enables therapists to determine the principle impairments and hypothesise to some extent about the source of the symptoms and factors contributing to the development and maintenance of the patient's disabilities and impairments. Once the pain mechanisms have been established to be predominately nociceptive and the disabilities and associated impairments analysed, trial treatments directed toward improving or correcting those impairments then serve as a further test of the evolving hypotheses regarding the source and cause of the patient's physical problems. Here the authors take their book to another level by including specific self-management procedures directed to the specific impairments identified through the differential examination. The visual and auditory presentation of these self-management procedures through videotape then provides the reader with a unique learning opportunity whereby they can immediately switch between examination and management, including self-management, procedures to reinforce their understanding and application. While not specifically referred to as such, this represents a collaborative approach to clinical reasoning. That is, the authors promote a view that patients should not be passive recipients of health care. Instead, through a process of collaboration, therapist and patient reach a shared understanding of the problem that includes a shared responsibility for the management. While the patient may rely on the therapist to establish the nature of the problem and the management recommended, the therapist then relies on the patient to participate through self-management. Self-management includes preparedness to consider and learn new health beliefs and behaviours and to continue with self-management physical exercises as demonstrated throughout the book. The interactive and flexible presentation of this book/CD-ROM along with the philosophy of promoting therapists' clinical reasoning and patient self-management provide an effective application of adult learning that should foster readers' deeper understanding of the theory discussed and procedures demonstrated. Readers are certain to learn much from this book and like me will look forward to the release of its companion volume on the lower quarter.

Il principio di fondo che ha ispirato questo lavoro è l'analisi della sintomatologia dolorosa con la quale il massaggiatore de