Dimensions
190 x 246 x 12mm
This book explains who sports massage improves and speeds up recovery from training and which sports injuries can be effectively treated by massage and how it should be applied.
Based on sound medical principles, and with over 200 specially commissioned photographs and illustrations, the book sets out the skills of sports massage for physiotherapists, coaches, trainers and keen sportspeople themselves. Easy to read and understand, it deals with the use and effects of massage in sport, with general massage techniques, the identification and treatment of specific injuries and acute injury problems. There are sections on stretching, self-massage, Shiatsu and acupressure.
