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- AS OTHERS SEE US:
Body Movement And The Art Of Successful Communication
By Ellen Goldman
Gordon and Breach, NY, 1995
pp 209, Paperback
- AYURVEDIC MASSAGE:
Traditional Indian Techniques for Balancing Body and Mind
By Harish Johari
Healing Arts Press 1996
pp 152, Paperback
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- BODYWORK:
What Type Of Massage To Get And How To Make The Most Of It
By Thomas Claire
William Morrow and Co, Inc, NYC, 1995
pp 384, HardcoverThe dominating feature of this book--as it examines in detail some 17 Soft-tissue approaches and techniques--is its description of each from the point of view of its "receiver," in this instance an articulate practicing Massage Therapist himself. Claire has also interviewed the carefully selected 17 "givers" who treated him to report their individual "slant" on their work. In bringing to his readers this strongly human "spin" from both sides of the table, the author tried to offer a unique, illuminating, and insightful view of the the bodymind healingwork variety, professional as well as "popular". The result is an affirmative, fulently written, easy to relate to coffee-table book.
- A BRAIN IS BORN:
Exploring the Birth and Development of the Central Nervous System
By John E Upledger, DO, OMM
North Atlantic Books, Berkley, CA, 1996
pp 340, Hardcover
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- DISCOVERING THE BODY'S WISDOM
By Mirka Knaster
Bantam New Age Books, NYC, 1996
pp 407, PaperbackThe major thrust of this lavishly, engagingly, (and wisely) "margin-annotated" book is the urgent need for all of us to get to know our bodies much better than we presently know them. The benefits that shall flow from that enhanced knowledge--physically, mentally, and spiritually--can be beyond measure. Sensing the body, listening to the body, acknowledging the body's natural and inherent "wisdom"--and its power, more often than generally assumed, to heal itself is THE way, certainly the first step toward better health, reduced pain and stress, spiritual growth and inner peace.
Mirka Knaster has laced the margins of her book's pages with an endless vine of relevant and telling quotations that immediately engage the reader, illuminate the body of her running text and continually tempt the reader to excerpt them--almost to commit them to memory. On the subject of body perception, for instance: "He who feels it, knows it more" (Bob Marley). In "Deciding on a Bodyway": "Considering all of the marvelous tools of one kind or another that humans have invented during recent decades (and before, for that matter) one is struck by the fact that none of them is so complex, potentially perfect, or wondrous as the human body" (Isaac Asimov). There are over 275 of these gems, each one sparkling and remarkably apropos to its adjacent text. And the book's many drawings are equally attractive.
Calling upon her long broad active interest in mind-body health practices, Knaster ranges her discussion of them from "traditional Eastern disciplines such as T'ai Chi, Shiatsu, and Yoga to modern Western techniques such as Swedish Massage, Rolfing, Feldenkreis, and Trigger Point Therapy, covering some 65 in the process. With characteristic detail, Knaster not only describes the virtues and contraindications of a given method but often provides resources as well. This book does a great job of bringing out the importance of the mind-body interrelatedness. To quote another wonderful side-line: "The skin is no more separated from the brain than the surface of a lake is separate from its depth . . . To touch the surface is to stir the depths." Although indifferent to the long preferred professional (and often legal) name, Massage Therapy, and errantly dismissing the significance of the professional MT state license, this book is, otherwise, well worth owning, pondering, and enjoying.
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- GETTING IN TOUCH:
The Guide to New Body-Centered Therapies
Christine, Ph.D. Caldwell (Editor), Kern Foundation
Quest Books, 1997
pp 288, Paperback
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- HUMAN MOVEMENT
An Introductory Text (3rd Edition)
Edited by Marion Trew; Tony Everett
Curchill Livingstone, Edinburgh, UK 1997
pp 241, Paperback, £20.00
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- MASSAGE DURING PREGNANCY
By Bette Waters
Research Triangle Publishing, 1995
pp 137, Paperback
- MINDING THE BODY:
Women Writers On Body And Soul
By Patricia Foster
Anchor Books, Doubleday, NYC, 1995
pp 321, Paperback
- MOSBY'S FUNDAMENTALS OF THERAPEUTIC MASSAGE
By Sandy Fritz
Mosby's Lifeline, St Louis, MI,1995
pp 445, PaperbackThis book, designed--successfully--to be a teaching and reference text, can as well be used to advantage as a continuing self-educating resource by all health proessionals, and by massage therapists. Engagingly identifying therapeutic massage as "structured touch," this closely written, compendious, comprehensive book has as its goal "the setting of standards" for a profession that--a universal core healing art throughout history-- "is now demonstrating a dramatic resurgence in a variety of mainstream medical and academic settings." Thus the need for standards.
These standards include a sound understanding of anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology, the normalization of which is the focus of the MT's work to ensure that any soft-tissue manipulation technique is applied appropriately. All of this (and much more) is provided in this book--which leaves no MT stone unturned, this book in itself is a new standard in the education of present and future licensed massage therapists.
- MOSBY'S VISUAL GUIDE TO MASSAGE ESSENTIALS
By Sandy Fritz
Mosby's Lifeline, St Louis, MI,1995
pp 128, Spiral-bindDescription A step-by-step illustrated guide to the basics of therapeutic massage for those who want to learn the proper techniques used by licensed massage therapists, this book teaches skills that can be used for the entire family. The easy-to-follow format provides a useful guide for the consumer or the massage practitioner. 100 color photos.
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- NEW CHOICES IN NATURAL HEALING FOR WOMEN:
From Aromatherapy and Herbs to Massage and Vitamin Therapy--Drug-Free Remedies from the World of Alternative Medicine
By Barbara Loecher, Sara Altshul O'Donnell, Sharon Faelten and Fugh-berma
Rodale Press, 1997
544 pp, Paperback
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- PALPATION SKILLS
Assessment and Diagnosis Through Touch
By Leon Chaitow, ND, DO
Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh, UK, 1997
pp 272, Paperback
- PSYCHOLOGY FOR HEALTH FITNESS PROFESSIONALS
By James Gavin and Nettie Gavin
Human Kinetics, Champaign, IL, 1995
pp 119, PaperbackThis is a useful, pragmatic book warning all health professionals never to go "beyond their resources, "regardless of how well-intentioned, no matter the clear needs of a patient or client. To do so is to court trouble. One of the deepest pitfalls is professional burnout. What the health fitness professional should bring is SPIRIT: that is, Support; Purpose; Integrity; Resolution; Timing. These, of course, are spelled out. A most helpful area of the book takes up in considerable detail the art of asking questions with especial emphasis on the value and effectiveness of the open question as contrasted with the generally unproductive closed question.
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- RECOGNIZING HEALTH AND ILLNESS:
Pathology For Massage Therapists and Bodyworkers
By Sharon Burch
Health Positive! Publishing, 1997
pp 281, PaperbackThis book, within a glut of too often self-serving books on or around the subject of massage therapy, clearly stands high above the bulk of them. Written in an organized, easy-to-read way, this always practical book is the kind of book that takes MTs in the right direction--greater professional recognition.
It is increasingly important for seriously comitted MTs to know just where MT "fits in" with its fellow-healers, especially with a more holistic, less conventional medical profession, what and where are the "yesses and nos" in its practice, why the "nos," and how to apply the "yesses" in systemic versus local health situations. RECOGNIZING HEALTH AND ILLNESS helps accomplish this and does it in such a way that it is a most helpful guide to unexperienced MTs and a best check list for the experienced MT, who, as it were, has handy in this book a complete listing of reminders of the countless "do's and don'ts" and "hows" involved in a professional-quality MT practice. With its convenient review "tests" (and equally convenient answers) at the end of each chapter, the book becomes an effective learning tool for the neophyte and an attractive refresher for the old-timer.
The author of RECOGNIZING HEALTH AND ILLNESS, Sharon Burch, has herself practiced MT in hospital, hospice and private practice for some seventeen years, managing now to organize her wealth of material and experience into a book that can take its serious reader from the ABCs of therapeutic massage (e.g. the concise description of the basic massage strokes) all the way to the application and contraindications of MT in cases of advanced cancer and the identification and assessment of "abnormal findings." MT professionals across the board will benefit from the refreshingly repeated emphasis on hygiene and universal safety precausions which are covered in the book in a clear manner.
Though not enough, Burch points out conditions that could well benefit from further study and research to substantiate or refute easily spread notions of where MT is indicated and where it is not. Inexplicably, the mechanical, 60s-ish term, bodywork, is used more often than the professional, massage therapy, its easily recognizable abbreviation, MT, or the more holistic, bodymind healthwork. Otherwise, the book is in every way a most welcome newcomer to the working library of serious MTs determined to do the best job possible for their clients and patients.
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- THE BODY TALKS
. . . And I Can Hear It
By Jeanie Lemaire
Balancing Arts, La Habra, CA 1995
pp 250, Paperback, $14.95
- THE COMPUTER USER'S SURVIVAL GUIDE
By Joan Stigliani
O'Reilly & Associates, Sebastopol, CA 1995
pp 277, Paperback
- TOUCH TRAINING FOR STRENGTH
By Beth Rothenberg and Oscar Rothenberg
Human Kinetics, Champaign, IL, 1995
pp 139, Paperback
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- UNDERSTANDING SPORTS MASSAGE
By Patricia J Benjamin, PhD, and Scott P Lamp
Human Kinetics, Champaign, IL, 1996
pp126 PaperbackIt is clear that sports participation--from the occasional jogger in the park (but running in the finest of running shoes and perhaps a "designer" UCONN women's basketball jersey) and the potential Michael Jordans and Little League NY Yankees-to-be to the top athletes themselves--has exploded upon the American scene. With this, of course, has come a sharp increase in the number and variety of"hurts" and strains experienced. The combination has made for an increased "call" for the services of therapists in the area of "sports massage." it is important to know, therefore, what Benjamin and Lamp make clear early in "Understanding Sports Massage": that sports massage lies completely within the practice of Massage Therapy. What distinguishes sports massage within Massage Therapy (defined classically by Benjamin and Lamp as "the manipulation of the soft tissues of the body") is its intent. "Sports massage is a more specific term to describe the the art and science of applying massage and related techniques to ensure the health and well-being of the athlete and to enhance athletic performance."
In the course of tracing the world-wide growth of sports massage (which is done in engaging detail), the authors--surprisingly--missed its first formal appearance in the United States. Instead of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, it actually took place a few years earlier, during the 1980 running of the New York City Marathon. Under the leadership of its president, Bruria Ginton, LicMT, the NY State Chapter of AMTA put together a finish-line facility of some 50 volunteer licensed MTs to tend to the needs of the race's grateful finishers.
This compact book will help all MTs interested in sports massage in that it not only distinguishes among the massage needs appropriate to restorative massage, remedial massage, rehabilitation massage, prevention massage, intervention massage, postevent massage, and maintenance massage but provides as well the techniques most appropriate in each instance. This should be an often-reached for book on the shelf of the serious, well-rounded MT.
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- WHAT'S REALLY WRONG WITH YOU:
A Revolutionary Look at How Muscles Affect Your Health
By Thomas Griner and Maxine Nunes
Avery Pub Group, IL, 1996
Paperback
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