This text offers a modern approach to hydrotherapy— the use of water, ice, steam, and hot and cold temperatures to improve or maintain health— as performed by massage therapists.

Dumbbell Training is loaded with 81 exercises and 33 ready-to-use programs that increase power, speed, agility, and balance in a number of popular sports.

This is an essential resource for learning massage in the acute care setting.

The book describes a method of healing involving simple muscle, ligament, and sinew relaxant techniques designed to relax contracted soft tissues putting strains on the spine.

Kinesiology tape is a newly, hugely popular treatment that is proven to decrease pain and preventing injury and re-injury.

This textbook guides massage therapists through each step of delivering a spa treatment—from consideration of the indications and contraindications to scope of practice issues, supplies, room set-up, specific procedure steps, and ideas ...

The new edition includes the latest research, new flexibility assessments, new stretching matrix, and dozens of the most effective stretches to personalize a program for any athlete, sport, or event.

Facilitated Stretching, Fourth Edition, examines techniques and guidelines for PNF stretches in a variety of settings.

Stretching Anatomy, Second Edition, is a visual guide to 86 stretches for increasing range of motion, muscular strength, stamina, posture, and flexibility.

This text gives instructors and students a structured format for teaching and learning ethics and standards of practice for massage therapy.