OUTCOME-BASED MASSAGE - $20 in Toronto, Ontario for sale

OUTCOME-BASED MASSAGE
Author: Carla-Krystin Andrade, Paul Clifford
Paperback: 373 pages
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2001
ISBN-10: 0781717434
ISBN-13: 34 / 4
Condition: This book is in very good condition. No marks or highlights. Minor page curl to bottom corner pages.
Price: $20.00

Written for physical therapists, massage therapists and occupational therapists, Outcome-Based Massage is the first text to introduce soft tissue massage techniques with functional outcomes in mind. By establishing a critical thinking process for incorporating massage into therapeutic practice, students and clinicians from a variety of health care professions can benefit from this valuable guide. This unique text instructs readers how to:

- Identify impairments through the client examination.

- Select and apply massage techniques for treating impairments and achieving functional outcomes .

- Integrate massage techniques with other treatment techniques.

- Plan for the discharge of the client.

- Demonstrates how to use techniques in practice with superb photographic illustrations, boxes, charts, figures, and clinical examples.

- Presents practice sequences that lead readers through the application of each technique

- Provides 23 categories of impairment-level outcomes of care for orthopedic, neurologic, cardiopulmonary, psychoneuroimmunologic, and central nervous system conditions that can be achieved using massage techniques.

- Incorporates current models of disablement, critical thinking methods, and evaluation techniques into a single problem-solving approach that is consistent with the APTA's "Guide to Physical Therapist Practice.

- Discusses the interpersonal aspects of massage in clinical care.

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Rob

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