A massage therapist's guide to Lower back and pelvic pain
(+ CD-ROM)
(Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier -2006 )
ISBN - 978-0443102189
Paperback, 256 Pages,
A Massage Therapist's Guide to Lower Back and Pelvic Pain describes in detail the background to the evolution of non-specific backache as well as the assessment and treatment methods ideal for use in combination with massage therapy, deriving from physical therapy, osteopathic, and chiropractic sources. The book describes these methods individually and then integrates them into a detailed description of a massage session focusing on the person with backache. This unique book takes care to consider the needs of the massage therapist, who previously may have had to adapt his/her own methodology from descriptions aimed at other health care professionals. A CD-ROM demonstrating the palpation and treatment methods supplements the text.
- The “triage”
- Imposter back pain
- How much pain is there, where is it, and where might it be coming from?
- Back pain – palpation, observation and assessment approaches
- Pelvic pain
- Modalities working with massage
- Outcome based massage (by Sandy Fritz)
- Prevention and rehabilitation: core stability and breathing retraining
- Prevention
- Other methods – summary of systems, methods and modalities used in manual treatment of back pain
BOOK REVIEW by Professor Edzard Ernst
Back pain is a problem that affects almost all of us. It therefore contributes considerably to the burden of suffering and it causes high expenditure in healthcare. What is more, we are not very successful in treating it. Numerous methods have been studied but none is totally convincing, atleast not in my view. Any treatment is therefore potentially a good one as long as it generates promising results, is not associated with high costs or adverse effects and is liked by patients. Massage fulfills these latter criteria perfectly. The book by Chaitow and Fritz provides brief introductions into the nature of back and pelvicpain and into some of the background issues related to massage therapy. It then shows in its main sections the aspiring student how to do it by going through some of the main techniques. Numerous drawings and photos illustrate the book and make it easier to understand. Of course,this book cannot replace proper hands-on training but is a most useful supplement to it. I recommend it to anyone who wants to study massage therapy seriously.
Edzard Ernst MD, PhD, FRCP, FRCP
Professor of Complementary Medicine,
Peninsula Medical School, Exeter,
UK
Manual Therapy Volume 14, Issue 5, October 2009
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