Massage Yourself: Self-massage of muscles, tendons and ligaments

by Rowland Benjamin

Overview

Massage Yourself is concerned with self-treatment, self-help and personal empowerment and describes a remedial massage system where you massage yourself. The book focuses on specific muscles without repetition. It covers two main types of technique: kneading and friction, and explains which muscles, tendons and ligaments are being massaged, where they are located, which part of your hand or massage tool is best to use and it explains how to do the massage technique. It is clear, easy to read, user friendly and contains hundreds of photographs and line drawings showing massage techniques for every part of the body, as well as anatomy illustrations and provides bullet points, which take you through the techniques step-by-step.

Self-massage can complement treatment by helping to fix problems or remove the need for treatment by preventing health problems developing. The book is useful for anyone who works with their own body, including manual workers, musicians, dancers, yoga students, personal trainers, sports coaches, athletes and sports people, or anyone who works on other people's bodies including masseurs, osteopaths, physiotherapists, chiropractors, manual therapists, yoga teachers, naturopaths, medical doctors, exercise physiologists, Pilates and aerobics teachers.

Self-massage can reduce treatment time and improve the health and efficiency of your muscles, tendons and ligaments without the need for expensive equipment, and once learned, can be used safely at home. It is especially useful when lots of short sessions of treatment are needed but are inconvenient for the patient. A patient can be working on his or her problem between treatments. Working from home can be so much easier and time saving.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940186586579
Publisher:	Rowland Benjamin
Publication date:	12/19/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	17 MB
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About the Author

Rowland Benjamin has worked as an Osteopath for thirty-seven years and in the health and massage field of massage for over forty years. In the late 1970s he established yoga schools in Australia and the U.K and worked with yoga and massage for several years before training as an Osteopath at the N.S.W. College of Natural Therapies and the Pacific College of Osteopathic medicine, Sydney, Australia. He set up his first Osteopathic practice in July 1985 in Sydney, Australia. In 1987 he moved to Liverpool, UK and worked for a year there and used the time for postgraduate studies at The British School of Osteopathy.

Rowland started working as a lecturer in 1987 teaching ‘Natural medicine’ for Liverpool City Council and ‘Natural living’ at Burton Manor College, Cheshire, U.K. Since then, he has lectured in Alternative medicine, Natural living, Soft tissue technique, Surface anatomy, Transverse friction, Deep tissue massage, Contemporary health issues, Life skills, Hydrotherapy and Advanced massage at various colleges in Perth, Western Australia.

During his career as an Osteopath Rowland has worked in Australia and the UK in private practice and as a locum. His first book ‘Myofaction - Myofascial Manipulation’ was published in 2002 and has sold widely. In 2015 he published ‘Safe Stretch’ that looked at individual differences and took them into account when prescribing the right stretches. www.safe-stretch.info. Rowland also authors environmental books that use cartoons and the written word to explain and generate greater awareness about the issues www.ecofreakocartoons.com

The author has travelled extensively throughout Australia, New Zealand, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Africa, North America, Central America and South America. He has worked as an environmental activist and lobbyist for over forty years and currently runs Information for Action.

In the 1990s he engaged in a musical career for a few years, writing and performing his song in Australia and the UK. Since 2010 he has been working on the construction of a Permaculture based orchard and nature area in Bridgetown, Western Australia where he resides and practices osteopathy. Progress at Bridgetown Hillside Garden can be viewed at www.bhg.org.au. He continues to practice evidence based and anatomy based manual therapy using self-help systems such as stretching and self-massage to empower his patients.