Save Your Hands! : The Complete Guide to Injury Prevention and Ergonomics for Manual Therapists

Comprehensive, authoritative, research-based information to help manual therapists prevent injury, enhance their practice, and prolong their careers. Includes practical information, advice and suggestions on good body mechanics, designing the workspace for greater comfort and safety, protecting vulnerable parts of the body by finding alternative techniques, staying in shape with a conditioning program designed by a doctor of physical therapy specifically for manual therapists, and recognizing and treating early symptoms to keep them from turning into injury. Written by a leading expert with over 13 years of experience and a certified professional ergonomist with over 17 years of experience, with contributions by a doctor of physical therapy with over 20 years of experience. Written in an accessible, easy-to-read style, this all-new second edition includes over 80 illustrations and photographs and has been endorsed by many prominent members of the manual therapy community.

Lauriann Greene, CEAS, wrote the acclaimed first edition of Save Your Hands! in 1995. Since then, she has published numerous articles, co-authored the first comprehensive statistical study on injury among massage therapists (with Richard Goggins), and performed injury prevention workshops for manual therapists across North America.Richard W. Goggins, CPE, LMP, is a senior-level ergonomist with the Washington Department of Labor & Industries. As a Certified Professional Ergonomist, he has spent the past 17 years working with business owners and employees to prevent injuries in a wide variety of industries. He is also a Licensed Massage Practitioner. Conditioning chapter and Foreword by Janet M. Peterson, PT, DPT, Member Board of Directors, APTA