Save Your Hands! Injury Prevention for Massage Therapists. This item is unavailable.Save Your Hands! Injury Prevention for Massage Therapists

Save Your Hands! is the complete guide to injury prevention and self-care for massage therapists. Purchased by hundreds of massage schools across the U.S. and Canada for their students, the book has been the leading self-care manual for massage professionals and students in 7 countries for over 10 years. This ground-breaking, critically-acclaimed book has helped tens of thousands of massage therapists to understand the risk of massage-related injury and learn how to protect their most important tools - their hands - throughout a long, healthy massage career. All massage practitioners, from those first learning techniques to the most experienced therapists, can benefit from the practical, medically-sound advice provided in Save Your Hands.

Massage therapy is a physically demanding career with a very high injury rate. Over 3/4's of practising massage therapists experience symptoms of injury at some point in their careers. Burn-out rates are so high that the average career in massage lasts only 7 years. Burnout and injury ARE preventable, if you know how to recognize the warning signs, change techniques and work habits, and seek early treatment. Save Your Hands will show you how to work smart instead of hard, to manage stress and pressure in the workplace and stay in shape to do this physical work, so you CAN have a long, successful massage career.

Lauriann Greene graduated with Honors from Seattle Massage School and has been a teaching assistant and tutor for the school. She studied previously at Brown and Harvard Universities, and attended the Mannes College of Music in New York City. In addition to Save Your Hands!, Lauriann is the author of numerous articles on injury prevention and self-care for massage therapists that have been published in Massage Magazine, Massage Therapy Journal, Positive Health and Massage & Bodywork Magazine. From 2000-2002, Lauriann wrote a popular column in Massage Magazine called "Helping the Healers." In 2006, with ergonomist Richard Goggins, she conducted a study on injury among massage therapists sponsored by Massage & Bodywork Magazine, which produced the first reliable statistics proving that work-related injury is common among massage therapists. Widely considered one of the foremost experts on injury among massage therapists, she continues to research and write about this important subject.