This comprehensive DVD includes more than two hours of techniques detailing 13 sessions and 10 injuries that will give you the tools to work with runners, cyclists, swimmers, tennis players and other athletes. Learn about the physiological principles that govern sports massage and the differences between each sport. The 13 sessions include a pre-event massage for runners, an inter-event massage for tennis players, and a post-event session for cyclists. The 10 common injuries with detailed sequences are: plantar fasciitis, shin splints, ITB syndrome, hamstring strain, neck pain, back pain, ankle sprains, patellar tendonitis, tennis elbow and the rotator cuff. Each session is a complete treatment protocol that will help to keep your athlete in top shape, recover from injuries, and improve their performance. This DVD also includes information on stretches, sport psychology, diet, and how to set up a massage station at a sporting event. Real Bodywork’s great graphics and clear filming make this DVD an outstanding educational resource for those who want to work with athletes.

Running Time: 120 mins, Includes a 14 pages booklet.

Level: Fundamental-Intermediate

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Stretching & Flexibility is a comprehensive system that includes stretching, strengthening, re-patterning, and relaxation. Developed by Kit Laughlin, the core is the Contract-Relax approach (C-R) as a core. C-R is based on the method called Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF) or muscle energy techniques (MET)

The DVD contains 193 minutes of high-quality digital video --that is three-and-a-quarter hours of exercises!

The DVD will take you through all 96 exercises from Kit Laughlin's famous book Stretching & Flexibility.

The DVD features easy search menus to help you find an exercise quickly.

Level: Fundamental-Intermediate

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This DVD presents the assessment, treatment and rehabilitation to treatment of lower extremity injuries. It is a unique multidisciplinary treatment approach by combining the most advanced techniques in structural bodywork to isolate the missing link for each situation, and addresses the assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation of conditions such as plantar fasciitis, Achilles tendinitis, posterior medial splints, anterior lateral shin splints, anterior compartment syndrome, neuromuscular pain, and muscle strains. You will learn to utilize functional assessment skills, myofascial release, neuromuscular therapy, cross fiber and multidirectional friction, muscle energy work, PNF stretching, and neuromuscular re-education, and you will also learn to identify and re-program your client’s subconscious limiting beliefs about chronic pain, and assist the client in taking responsibility for their specific condition.

Level: Intermediate-Advanced

Running Time: 60 mins

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This DVD addresses rotator cuff injuries, such as subscapularis tendinitis, supraspinatus tendinitis, and infraspinatus and teres minor muscle-tendon pain. It also address bicipital tendinitis, medial epicondylitis or golfer's elbow, lateral epicondylitis or tennis elbow, carpal tunnel syndrome, neuromuscular pain, and muscle strains.

This DVD will show you functional assessment skills, myofascial release, neuromuscular therapy, cross-fibre and multidirectional friction, muscle energy technique, and neuromuscular re-education. It also shows you how to identify and re-program your clients subconscious limiting beliefs about chronic pain, and teach them to take responsibility of their specific conditions. 

Running Time: 60 mins

Level: Intermediate-Advanced

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This DVD shows you a unique multidisciplinary approach to the assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation of lower back pain, injuries to pelvis, quadriceps and hamstrings.

Learn how to address the balance of iliopsoas, quadratus lumborum, and the deep six hip rotators. Learn the relationship between quadriceps and hamstrings on pelvic imbalance and back pain. It also addresses patellar tendinitis, ITB friction syndrome, hamstring strains, and groin strains.  You will learn to utilize functional assessment skills, myofascial release, neuromuscular therapy, cross fiber and multidirectional friction, muscle energy work, PNF stretching, and neuromuscular re-education, and you will also learn to identify and re-program your client’s subconscious limiting beliefs about chronic pain, and assist the client in taking responsibility for their specific condition.

Level: Intermediate-Advanced

Running Time: 60 mins

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Get all 3 of this series (Vol 1,2,3) and save: Assessment and Treatment of Lower Extremity Injuries, Upper Extremity Injuries & Low Back pain & Sciatica

Level: Intermediate-Advanced

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Isolated Stretching for Prevention and Rehabilitation of Chronic Pain and Sports Injuries.  

This DVD is based on creating structural balance throughout the body by focusing on muscle groups that shorten due to repetitive motions or prolonged poor posture. Many people are stretching the wrong muscle groups in a futile attempt to eliminate pain patterns. For example, many computer users complained “between the shoulder-blade pain” but insist on continuing to stretch this area. They need to learn that the lower traps, middle rhomboids, and posterior rotator cuff are already weak and overstretched. Stretching the shortened muscles in front of the neck and shoulders is the key. Patient compliance and precise home care is critical.

Level: Intermediate-Advanced

Running Time: 60 mins

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Featured in Massage and Bodywork Magazine, September 2006: New Products section. Rating: ***** (5 out of 5 Stars)

From Greg Polins, creator of Thumbsavers, comes a new instructional video. Thumbsavers is an affordable massage tool that assists therapists by providing support to your thumbs and fingers and reducing the stress on your joints and wrists from massage. The DVD is created to provide massage therapists the tips and techniques to get the most out of Thumbsavers massage tools, this DVD will teach you how to provide direct, even pressure for your clients while reducing finger and wrist fatigue. Greg showed you the use of Thumbsavers for occiput release, pectoralis, forearm, wrist & hand,  thighs, legs, knee, feet, gluteus, erector spinae, trapezius, rhomboids.

Running Time: 30 mins

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230 photographs,

24 anatomical illustrations 

Sport & Remedial Massage Therapy

This is the definite reference book on massage which will prove invaluable to practitioners. Fully illustrated with photographs & drawings, it covers all the practical and theoretical aspects of the subject, ranging from the basics through to the treatment of soft tissue injuries. This book covers the practical and theoretical aspects of the subject and shows how to work in a support role with medical practitioners treating more serious injury. It sees massage as a vital component in an athlete's training. 

A guide to massage as a remedial therapy for sports training and injuries from the UK. Contains: Fundamental Principles- such as posture & quality of feel to help therapists achieve the best results with minimal effort & best results. A fully illustrated reference section to individual muscles, explaining particular characteristics of injury & treatment. This book also includes soft tissue manipulation techniques which can relax, stretch & strengthen muscles, the techniques covered: Neuromuscular Therapy (NMT), Muscle Energy Techniques (MET), Soft Tissue Release (STR), Strain CounterStrain (SCS) or Positional Release and Connective Tissue Manipulation (CTM). Also a separate section on Chinese acupressure massage. It also has remedial exercises & self massage.

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Soft Tissue Release. A Practical Handbook for Physical Therapists

Whether for sporting competition, work, or the maintenance of posture, everyone needs muscles that are strong, supple, and in balance. Regular manipulation of the soft tissues plays an essential role in maintaining healthy muscles. Soft Tissue Release will transform any treatment, allowing specific problems to be addressed rapidly and effectively. Soft Tissue Release (STR) not only helps to keep the muscles in peak condition, but it also allows specific problems to be rapidly and effectively addressed. This unique book unlocks the secret of STR and clearly illustrates the techniques involved through a series of diagrams and photo sequences. This book is a thoroughly illustrated "bible" on the many applications of this advanced assisted stretching technique, with detailed examples muscle by muscle.

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The Anatomy of Sports Injuries

Everyone who plays sports experiences injuries. Many people never fully recover because they’re not aware of what they can do to facilitate recovery. But there’s no need to simply resign yourself to “living with” a sports injury. In The Anatomy of Sports Injuries, author Brad Walker brings years of expertise—he works with elite-level and world-champion athletes, and lectures on injury prevention—to this how-to guide. The book takes a fundamental approach, bringing you inside the body to show exactly what is happening when a sports injury occurs. At the heart of The Anatomy of Sports Injuries are 300 full-color illustrations that show the sports injury in detail, along with 200 line drawings of simple stretching, strengthening, and rehabilitation exercises that the reader can use to speed up the recovery process. The Anatomy of Sports Injuries is for every sports player or fitness enthusiast who has been injured and would like to know what the injury involves, how to rehabilitate the area, and how to prevent complications or injury in the future.

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160 pages, 120 colour drawings

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Books on stretching are common, but The Anatomy of Stretching takes a more fundamental approach than the others, taking the reader inside the body to show exactly what is happening during a stretch. At the heart of the book are 300 full-color illustrations that show the primary and secondary muscles worked in 115 key stretches arranged by body area. Author Brad Walker brings years of expertise—he works with elite-level and world-champion athletes, and lectures on injury prevention—to this how-to guide. He looks at stretching from every angle, including physiology and flexibility; the benefits of stretching; the different types of stretching; rules for safe stretching; and how to stretch properly. Aimed at fitness enthusiasts of any level, as well as at fitness pros, The Anatomy of Stretching also focuses on which stretches are useful for the alleviation or rehabilitation of specific sports injuries. 

Brad Walker, Assoc. Dip. Health Science (Sport and Exercise), is a prominent Australian sports trainer with more than twenty years’ experience in the health and fitness industry. Walker graduated from the University of New England, and has postgraduate accreditations in athletics, swimming, and triathlon coaching. Read articles by Brad. Brad's company website.

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