Search -
Beyond Sports Medicine - Injury Prevention and Care Through Sports Massage
Beyond Sports Medicine Injury Prevention and Care Through Sports Massage Author:Myk Hungerford This text covers a range of topics including massage technique descriptions, technique effects, phases of treatment, acute and chronic injury management, spinal exercises, stress management, and self-help exercises for various anatomical areas. — Each topic is presented for easy reading with minimal technical information. The text offers illustra... more »tions that depict the various techniques described. This book is not designed to provide recipe treatments; the author encourages the therapist to understand and develop an individual protocol for each case. Multiple techniques ranging from proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation to counterstrain exercises are described and are well illustrated, which is helpful when preparing a protocol.
The chapters are as follows:
1. What is Sports Massage
2. An Overview of Various Phases of Sports Massage
3. The Fundamentals of Sports Massage Therapy
4. Injury Prevention and Treatment
5. Pre Event Sports Massage
6. Post Event Sports Massage
7. Restoration, Rehabilitation, Training, and Conditioning