Sep
5
2023
Assessment Through Touch, by Leon Chaitow, Now in the 3rd edition, fully revised and published in February 2010 with CD-ROM.
This useful guide to palpation for musculoskeletal diagnosis and assessment describes and illustrates the skills needed to increase sophistication of palpatory assessment skills and practice. A companion CD-ROM supports the skills with video clips, and each technique is reinforced with practical exercises and self-assessment questions.
This book is available from: http://www.terrarosa.com.au/book/palpate.htm
By combining a workbook approach with the use of video demonstrations and audio explanations on a CD-Rom, Palpation Skills provides the student and developing practitioner with a portable workshop which they can access at any time. The book helps to extend the range of skills by bringing together suggested approaches from a variety of disciplines.
* Covers the palpation and assessment of all tissues and systems, including the skin, muscle structure, and the spine and pelvis
* Gives practical guidance and instruction on a broad variety of palpation techniques
* All the palpation techniques covered are clearly described and illustrated in the text and supported by video film on the CD-Rom
* Each technique is supported by practical exercises and self assessment questions.
* Further questions relating to the video clips are included in the CD-Rom
* Directs the beginner in the correct way to carry out the techniques and provides additional techniques for the practitioner to add to his basic library of skills
* Provides outcome expectations against which progress can be measured.
* The video support can help to identify how to improve these skills.
* Written by a highly respected practitioner and teacher – brings his workshops to the individual at home and in the clinic
* 2 colour printing throughout the text helps to clarify the structure of the content and the details of the movements being shown in the diagrams
* The CD-Rom (featuring video clips) supports and supplements the written text.
This book is available from: http://www.terrarosa.com.au/book/palpate.htm
Sep
5
2023
Understanding Sports Massage, Second Edition
Understanding Sports Massage, provides readers with an understanding of the fundamental theory and practical basis for using sports massage to keep athletes in top shape, recover from injuries, and improve performance. Like the successful first edition, Understanding Sports Massage is ideal for sport professionals and students in sports massage training programs. The book illustrates and explains massage techniques in detail and describes the procedures involved in conducting effective sports massage sessions, including determining goals, organizing the session, and choosing and applying techniques.
In addition to serving sport professionals, the new edition of Understanding Sports Massage will be useful to coaches, athletes, and teachers. They will be introduced to massage techniques that they can learn and apply in nonmedical situations such as in warm-ups, preparing for and recovering from competition, reducing the potential for injuries, and aiding in injury rehabilitation.
Understanding Sports Massage, Second Edition, also features many updates and improvements from the first edition: Nearly 100 photographs demonstrate proper technique. New two-color presentation highlights specific elements of the photos and text for a clearer understanding of the techniques presented. Updated and expanded material throughout the book includes new sections on medications and massage, specialized massage techniques, and joint movements and stretching; an updated trouble spots form; more examples of remedial and rehabilitation applications; and a description of the increasing use of sports massage in integrative sports medicine settings.
This book is available from: http://www.terrarosa.com.au/book/understanding_sports_massage.htm
Sep
5
2023
At a spa–carnivorous plant farm in northern Israel, you can get a snake massage for just $80. Spa mistress Ada Barak came up with the idea after visitors who came to scope out her carnivorous plants (which eat schnitzel, among other things) enjoyed the sensation of holding the garden snakes she’d pass around after the tour. For the snake massage, she basically plops a mass of entwined snakes of various sizes on your stomach and lets them slither all over you. This is supposed to have “calming and curative effects.” Time sent a writer to try out this treatment. “After some experimenting” Barak perfected her treatment with a combination of big snakes which produce a kneading sensation and little snakes “whose passage over the skin is a trembling flutter.” How big is big?
Just as I am psyching myself up for the treatment, I see one of the little snakes, with a string of brick-colored diamonds along its spine, open its mouth impossibly wide. Is it going to strike? No — it coughs up a half-digested mouse, leading me to assume that the snake is as queasy about giving me a massage as I am about getting one.
Wow, gross? To top that off, once the snakes get to work, one nibbles on the subject’s eyelashes. The writer emerges from the “massage” feeling “relaxed and curiously lightheaded.” You know, if snakes that ate mice had a nibble of our eyelashes from the comfort of our stomach, we’d feel a little lightheaded, too.
http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2008/09/the_latest_spa_craze_snake_mas.html
