Sports & Exercise Massage: Comprehensive Care for Athletics, Fitness, & Rehabilitation

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. INDICE: PrefaceUNIT ONE: THEORY AND APPLICATION OF EXERCISE AND ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE1. The World of Sports and Exercise Massage2. What is Sports Massage 3. Evidence for Sports Massage Benefit4. Kinesiology5. Fitness First6. Sport-Specific Movement7. Nutritional Support and Banned Substances8. Influences of the Mind and Body UNIT TWO: SPORTS MASSAGE: THEORY AND APPLICATION9. Indications and Cautions10. Assessment for Sports Massage and Physical Rehabilitation Application 11. Review of Massage Methods12. Stretching  NEW!13. Focused Massage Application14. Unique Circumstances and Adjunct Therapies UNIT THREE: SPORT INJURY15. Injury in General16. Pain Management17. Common Categories of Injury 18. Medical Treatment for Injury19. Systemic Illness and Disorders20. Injury by AreaUNIT FOUR: CASE STUDIES 21. Case StudiesGlossary Index

• ISBN: 978-0-323-08382-9
• Editorial: Mosby
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 472
• Fecha Publicación: 17/04/2013
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés