Traditional Bodywork – Massage Therapy Bundle
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Holistic Client Assessment
Holistic client assessment is of key importance to massage and bodywork therapists to come to proper diagnosis of the client’s complaints and subsequently to an efficient, effective, and safe treatment plan.
In this respect, you often encounter terms like “holistic treatments”, “holistic approach,” “holistic assessment,” or “holistic massage and bodywork,” and so on.
Of course, most people know that the term “holistic” applies to the “whole person” as an interrelated physical, emotional, mental and spiritual “being.” But what exactly does it mean to “work holistically” in healthcare practices? And what techniques and methods are involved in “holistic assessment?”
We give you answers to those questions by diving deeply into the various domains and elements of holistic client assessment, accompanied with plenty of practical, real-life examples.
Hence, we are confident that this book can support you in an enhanced “holistic practice” making for more successful massage or bodywork treatment plans and sessions.
The Art of Massage
With the Art of Massage we offer you a detailed and comprehensive overview of massage therapy, thoroughly exploring massage concepts, applications, tools and techniques.
We start the book by covering the concepts and philosophy that support the basis of massage therapy. We then engage in a detailed examination of the numerous applications and aims of massage, followed by an extensive discussion of the tools and techniques that form the actual practice of massage treatment sessions.
Traditional Massage Encyclopedia
We’re proud to have produced this unique book, which is surely the most complete traditional massage reference guide in the world, covering more than 150 distinct massage modalities.
We start this book with an introduction to some general aspects around traditional massages. This is followed by a section that discusses the massage history and developments of/within various significant geographical regions.
We then continue with giving you the general characteristics of traditional massage types. After this section, we embark on the largest part of the book, which describes individual massage treatment modalities, per country or per larger region.
Note that this book aims at providing you with a conceptual understanding of the topic and is not a training course.
Modern Massage Encyclopedia
In this eBook, we offer you a comprehensive overview of the most popular modern massage treatment modalities around the world.
Having said that, one should keep in mind that it’s virtually impossible to create a complete overview of all modern massage treatment modalities. Not only is the number of “distinct” massages staggering, you will also find that “new” types of massage treatments appear very regularly.
Then again, we don’t think that it’s really needed to give you a list of all known modalities because many are very much alike, based on the same principles, with just here and there “something” different. Hence, we’ve aimed at describing only those massage treatments that are more or less unique or — by contrast — rather popular.
One of the reasons of the large number of modern massages is the tendency to trademark massage treatments. Of course, that’s simply to make things more interesting, attractive and “special,” and moreover, to make money with treatments, training, and certifications in those trademarked, “protected” modalities.
In general, you will regularly find “new” trademarked massages which are just very farfetched, or you’ll perhaps encounter completely ridiculous hybrids of already existing traditional or other modern massages.
Another issue is that the West likes to “specialize.” It makes for almost hilarious massage modalities, such as Bio-energetic Toenail Reflexology, Earlobe-Chocolate Massage, Left-Buttock Myofascial Massage, Kneecap Energy Massage, Nose-Lift Cross-Fiber Massage, Navel-Toning Massage, and so on.
In fact, these types of “specialized” massage modalities are perhaps not “wrong,” or a complete hoax, but they are usually only part of a broader massage modality, such as a Foot Massage, Facial Massage, or Abdominal Massage, etcetera.
Mind also that many modern massage techniques are based on concepts borrowed from traditional medicine systems (such as acupressure, Vital Life Energy, Energy Channels, and so on), and you will find some of those types of modalities mentioned in our book to give you the broad picture, notably those modalities that were “assembled” by modern Western therapists.
At the end of our book, you will also find a section called Supporting Chapters. It covers some traditional massages and concepts that we think are necessary to know about to better understand the make-up of some of the modern massages presented in the book.
Note that this book aims at providing you with a conceptual understanding of the topic and is not a training course.
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