Sport & Remedial Massage Therapy – by Mel Cash

This book is a guide to exactly what it says in the title, and is quite comprehensive at that. We learn about how to use massage therapy to fix and/or improve our health, in the context of sport and/or conditions that require attention.

So, if the only sports you participate in include such events as the middle-distance grocery-carry, the vacuuming and bedsheet-change biathlon, or ranked competitive gardening, then this handbook has you covered too.

By “comprehensive”, we mean that it includes:

• Massage techniques for maintenance of one’s body
• Massage techniques for recovering from specific injuries
• Massage techniques for reducing the symptoms of various conditions
• A glossary of anatomical terms, including bone/muscle/etc names and also terms like “adduction”, “plantaflexion”, “eversion”, and other “move this thing this way” words
• There’s even a section on acupressure and Traditional Chinese Medicine.

The style is quite old-school instructional manual, and the illustrative photos used throughout do date it rather, though they’re clear enough to be serviceable.

Bottom line: if you’d like to be able massage yourself and/or a loved one to avoid/fix many ailments, then this book can help with a lot of that.

Click here to check out Sport & Remedial Massage Therapy, and learn to do it yourself!