Basic Clinical Massage Therapy
Integrating Anatomy and Treatment
Second edition
by James H. Clay

Basic Clinical Massage Therapy covers individual muscles and muscle systems and demonstrates basic clinical massage therapy techniques.

More than 550 full-color illustrations of internal structures are embedded into photographs of live models to show each muscle or muscle group, surrounding structures, surface landmarks, and the therapist's hands. Readers see clearly which muscle is being worked, where it is, where it is attached, how it can be accessed manually, what problems it can cause, and how treatment techniques are performed. This edition features improved illustrations of draping and includes palpation for each muscle.

An accompanying Real Bodywork DVD includes video demonstrations of massage techniques from the book.

Contents

Foundations of Clinical Massage Therapy

1. Approaching Clinical Massage Therapy
2. Approaching Assessment

Approaching Treatment

3. The Head, Face, and Neck
4. The Shoulder, Chest, and Upper Back
5. The Arm and Hand
6. The Vertebral Column
7. The Low Back and Abdomen
8. The Pelvis
9. The Thigh
10. The Leg, Ankle and Foot

Appendices

• Anatomical Prefixes and Suffixes
• Directional and Kinetic Terminology
• Muscles by Pain Referral Zone

Glossary
Index

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