Save Your Hands!: The Complete Guide to Injury Prevention and Ergonomics for Manual Therapists, Third Edition - Softcover

Greene, Lauriann; Goggins, Richard W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0967954924 ISBN 13: 9780967954929

Verlag: Illuminate Press, 2025

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The physically demanding work massage therapists and other manual therapists do puts them at risk for musculoskeletal injury - it's a proven fact. Students and professionals know what it's like to have sore hands or an aching back at the end of the day, and then as a result, starting to limit the work you do and eventually feeling burned out.

But injury is NOT inevitable! Save Your Hands! Third Edition gives you the proven injury prevention and ergonomics techniques and practical advice you need to protect your health and your investment in your career.

In an accessible, richly-illustrated format, Save Your Hands! Third Edition shows you how to:

• Design your treatment space so you can work safely and efficiently
• Find alternative techniques to protect vulnerable parts of your body
• Improve body mechanics to work with less physical strain and greater comfort
• Use a physical conditioning program developed specifically to keep you healthy as a manual therapist
• Recognize early symptoms and address them effectively before they lead to injuries that can affect your work and your life outside of work.

This essential resource offers the comprehensive information you need to save your hands, back, neck, shoulders and emotional well-being throughout a long, healthy career. For all massage therapists, physical therapists, physical therapy assistants, occupational therapists, hand therapists, chiropractors, osteopaths, nurses, athletic trainers, and more.

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Lauriann Greene, has been a leading writer, speaker and researcher on injury prevention and ergonomics for manual therapists since 1995. She studied at Brown and Harvard Universities before graduating in 1993 with honors from Seattle Massage School. As a former professional orchestral conductor and pianist, Lauriann was interested in working with other musicians to reduce playing-related upper extremity injury. This interest led her to write an article on musculoskeletal disorders among musicians that appeared in Massage Therapy Journal in 1994.Lauriann used this research, as well as her own experience with an MSD while at massage school to develop the Save Your Hands! Workshopsfor massage therapists. After passing her state boards in 1993, she taught these in-person workshops to hundreds of students and professionals across the U.S. and Canada. Based on the anecdotal evidence she obtained from workshop participants and existing research on musculoskeletal disorders, the first edition of Save Your Hands! was published by Infinity Press in 1995. It was the first comprehensive book on injury prevention for massage therapists ever published.Since that time, Lauriann wrote numerous articles for publications including Massage Therapy Journal, Massage Magazine, ISPA PulseMagazine, Massage & Bodywork and Positive Health Magazine. She also wrote a regular column in Massage Magazine called "Helping theHealers" for two years. Speaking at industry conferences like ABMP and IECSC also helped her get the word out about this important subject. In 2005, Lauriann joined forces with ergonomist and massage therapist Rick Goggins and the ABMP on a a survey that produced the first reliable statistics on the prevalence of injury among massage therapists and bodyworkers. The results were published in 2006 in Massage& Bodywork. Lauriann also completed training to become a Certified Ergonomics Assessment Specialist (CEAS) at that time. Lauriann nowoffers a range of injury prevention and ergonomics consulting and educational services including CE courses to therapists, schools, clinics and spas.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Illuminate Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0967954924
• ISBN 13: 9780967954929
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 3
• Anzahl der Seiten: 374
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland