CREATESPACE Textbook of therapeutic massage technique and complementary kinesiotherapy I: Volume 1

The work covers an important area of the theoretical and practical training needs of the specialist in Balneo-physio-kinesiotherapy, Physiotherapy and Kinesiotherapy, by structuring the material, by detailing methodologies for implementing different categories of massage therapy procedures and by associating a rich illustration. The content of the "Treatise" is structured logically, opening with specific issues related to the infrastructure of the physical medicine sector, respectively therapeutic massage and associated kinesiotherapy, continued with the general principles that guide the work of staff in the therapeutic massage sector. Through the presentation and organization of chapters, methodologies, concepts and technical processes, the content of the "Treatise" meets the requirements for training and retraining specialists who practice therapeutic massage, also complying with the syllabus on therapeutic massage prescribed as a therapeutic method, within rehabilitation or prophylactic programs. Through its content, readers receive information on the specificities of the different topographical areas, they are progressively familiarized with physiological and pathophysiological aspects of the organs and tissues involved in massage manoeuvres, learn to follow the physiological and therapeutic effects of various forms of therapeutic massage and find, in an applicative manner, justification for the correlation between therapeutic massage and associated kinesiotherapy. In volume 1, chapter I presents the essential criteria for selecting people who want to become masseurs. It also presents the basic concepts that any person wishing to practice the profession must learn and the equipment and facilities of massage rooms. In Chapter II, the author, Anghel Diaconu classifies and gives structured details on therapeutic massage manoeuvres. Chapter III contains general guidance on the proper technique for undertaking therapeutic massage manoeuvre methodologies. Hereafter is a topographic and anatomic-physiological description, followed by the techniques for performing each massage manoeuvre for each region and area of the human body. In volume II, chapter IV presents the technique for performing full body massage, which is a synthesis of the massage on regions. The author insists on observing vicinity reactions, given the muscular-vascular-neural bundle and deep organs, painful and trophic peculiarities, locally or in the vicinity, and the peculiarities of nonspecific somatic and psycho-behavioural reactions. Next, the role of therapeutic massage in increasing the efficiency of lymphatic, reflexology and sports massage therapy is presented. Chapter V presents the conditions and techniques to perform massage on the baby (infant) by mothers or/and by masseurs. In Chapter VI, Assoc. prof. Gilda Mologhianu, PhD. describes massage, specific techniques. Chapter VII, chair massage. In Chapter VIII, Prof. Adriana Sarah Nica, PhD. describes massage therapy as a basic rehabilitation procedure, medical assessment, indications and contraindications of this therapy. Chapter IX, massage in neurological and rheumatic disorders. Based on this "Treatise" with a clearly presented content, that is coherently structured and convincingly illustrated, one can complete both theoretical presentations and practical type comparative demonstrations, application exercises, case studies, analyses of situations in different categories of pathologies, on a case-by-case approach. The work can become the foundation for acquiring skills and abilities required by the standard of training for a good quality professional offer. It includes a practical aspect, covering a need of information and corrective exercise in physiotherapy, as an appropriate alternative of non-pharmacological therapy. Also, its character of novelty for international literature is noteworthy.