Overview
Providing a massage for healing and well being can be one of the most therapeutic things you offer someone. With the help of this book, you'll learn a series of brief message routines including a one-minute foot massage, a three-minute shoulder rub, plus short routines using lotion for back, shoulders, neck and feet. Step-by-step and visual instructions help you master the techniques. The focus is on massage scenarios that can be realistically incorporated into a busy schedule. The authors address the role that message can play in facilitating well-being and healing, and offer explanations for the links between thoughts, feelings, and stress, and how they affect body tension. massage is discuss for patients with a variety of health conditions. Key features: * Focuses on brief, effective massages * Detailed photographs and diagrams show close up techniques * Places healing massage in context of health and well-being * Step-by-step and visual instructions * Written in conversational tone (holistic nursing, CAM, alternative medicine, complementary medicine, nursing)
Full Product Details
Author: Marsha Walker ,
Jonathan Walker
Publisher: Cengage Learning, Inc
Imprint: Delmar Cengage Learning
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 3.30cm
, Length: 22.60cm
Weight: 0.720kg
ISBN: 9780766806924
ISBN 10: 0766806928
Pages: 544
Publication Date: 22 November 2002
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Awaiting stock
Reviews
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Author Information
Jonathan Walker became a Registered Massage Therapist in 1980 and began a private practice with Marsha Jelonek Walker. In 1994, after practicing and teaching massasge for 14 years, Jonathan received his Master's Degree in Education with a focus on Instructional Design for Learning Technologies. In addition to his continuing interest and involvement in spirituality, healing, and teaching, he has worked as a freelance writer and designer in insutructional media. Marsha Jelonek Walker became a Registered Massage Therapist in 1980 and began a private practice. In 1992 she received her Masters Degree in Nursing and went on in 1994 to help develop a Holistic Nursing Series for the Continuing Education Department at the University of Texas School of Nursing in Austin. She continues to enjoy her private practice and is on the faculty of the Lauterstein-Conway School of Massage in Austin. In 1997, she became a Certified Holistic Nurse and is now working on her Ph.D. in Holistic Adult Nursing.
