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Save Your Hands! Injury Prevention for Massage Therapists | 
 enlarge | Authors: Lauriann Greene, Robert A. Greene
Publisher: Gilded Age Press
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 542447
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 160
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6.9 x 0.4
ISBN: 0967954908
Dewey Decimal Number: 615
EAN: 9780967954905
ASIN: 0967954908
Publication Date: April 11, 2000
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Product Description
Save Your Hands! is the complete guide to injury prevention and self-care for massage therapists. Purchased by hundreds of massage schools across the U.S. and Canada for their students, the book has been the leading self-care manual for massage professionals and students in 7 countries for over 10 years. This ground-breaking, critically-acclaimed book has helped tens of thousands of massage therapists to understand the risk of massage-related injury and learn how to protect their most important tools - their hands - throughout a long, healthy massage career. All massage practitioners, from those first learning techniques to the most experienced therapists, can benefit from the practical, medically-sound advice provided in Save Your Hands. Massage therapy is a physically demanding career with a very high injury rate. Over 3/4's of practising massage therapists experience symptoms of injury at some point in their careers. Burn-out rates are so high that the average career in massage lasts only 7 years. Burnout and injury ARE preventable, if you know how to recognize the warning signs, change techniques and work habits, and seek early treatment. Save Your Hands will show you how to work smart instead of hard, to manage stress and pressure in the workplace and stay in shape to do this physical work, so you CAN have a long, successful massage career.
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 A Must-Read for Bodyworkers!!! January 2, 2008
Sunbow (Seattle, WA)
I purchased this book after I graduated from a fabulous massage program, while awaiting my license. In the first 10 minutes of reading it, I realized I should have had this information BEFORE I started school! The information is concise, practical, and so very important for those of us who heal with our hands. Now that I'm practicing, I refer to it every couple of weeks, especially when I start feeling any pain in my hands or wrists. It gently reminds me to check my own body mechanics, and that there are other ways to help others ~ without hurting myself.
Save your hands May 18, 2007
Deborah J. Gray
I bought this book as a gift to my daughter who is going to massage school. She said its a great book and very informative.
Great Book for massage therapists November 10, 2006
Deanna Hyland (Las Vegas, NV)
This is a great book for any massage therapist. It will tell you how to protect your best tool your hands.
 Don't let it scare you out of a massage career. August 17, 2004
massage man
23 out of 26 found this review helpful
As a Licensed massage therapist of 8 years, specializing in deep tissue work, I went through a period of injury early in my career, and turned to Ms. Greene's book to get help and hope. Unfortunately, I came away more nervous than hopeful of being able to continue with many years in a massage career that I enjoyed so much. I learned from a colleague that Ms. Greene does not practice massage anymore, and does indeed make her living off of her book, and lecturing, as another reviewer commented. In her book she takes prevention to some extremes that a massage practitioner of any experience would scoff at. I found that my period of injury was a good time to research as much as I could from various sources and figure out what would help me. (And subsequently my clients) This is not to say that there isn't some good information to be gleened from this book, but the author has given up the practice of massage, just consider the source.
Great information, much needed for students and prof's November 23, 2003
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
My massage school offered very little information about injury prevention, so this book was an eye-opener for me. I think many students and even professionals don't take care of their own bodies and need the informaton that's in this book. Many of my fellow students became injured while they were in school and didn't know how to deal with it. I have many friends who are massage therapists, and when they have pain they don't know why or what to do about it. I have had pain in my arms several times, and this book helped me figure out why and get the right treatment to keep it from getting worse. I would recommend this book for any massage therapist.
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