Nurturing massage for pregnancy: a practical guide to bodywork for the perinatal cycle

Nurturing Massage for Pregnancy is a textbook for massage students and certified massage therapists who treat clients who are pregnant or in labour, or whohave recently given birth. The book focuses on general soft-tissue and Swedish massage and assumes the reader is already familiar with those techniques as will as the basica of anatomy and physilogy, kinesiology. The book also integrates some mysofasical release and trigger point techniques, as well as occasional complementary bodywork methodologies, such as the use of breath and visualizations, acupressure, aromatherapy, and hydrotherapy. To address the concernsof many practitioners with regard to working with pregnant clients, contraindications and precautions are examined thoroughly, along with a review of basicobstetrical practices.

• ISBN: 978-0-7817-6753-8
• Editorial: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 256
• Fecha Publicación: 13/01/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés