Book Description
More than just a compendium of diseases, this comprehensive guide is an essential resource on pathology and pathophysiology that helps students adapt their technique to ease pain and discomfort, promote healing, and avoid treatment when contraindicated. Ideal as a learning tool or as a handy quick reference, this highly illustrated resource provides discussions of more than 300 pathologies and conditions organized by the body system. Taking the reader through health assessment and client consultation, this outstanding textbook also covers sanitation procedures and hygiene, as well as general contraindications and endangerment sites.
About the Author
Susan G. Salvo, BEd, LMT, NTS, CI, NCTMB, Co-Owner, Co-Director, and Instructor, Louisiana Institute of Massage Therapy, Lake Charles, LA; Veteran Massage Therapist, Lake Charles, LA; and Sandra Kauffman Anderson
Mosby's Pathology for Massage Therapists FROM THE PUBLISHER
Featuring color-coded traffic signal icons throughout, Mosby's Pathology for Massage Therapists helps you immediately determine when massage is safe, when it merits caution, or when it is contraindicated. More than just a compendium of diseases, this practical text provides discussions of more than 300 pathologies and conditions, organized by body system, to help you adapt your technique to ease pain and discomfort, promote healing, and avoid massage treatment when necessary.
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