Mosby's Essential Sciences for Therapeutic Massage: Anatomy, Physiology, Biomechanics, and Pathology

by Sandy Fritz MS BCTMB CMBE

The fourth edition of this science essentials text for massage students features new full-color photos and illustrations along with an easy-to-read, conversational style that explains A&P concepts clearly. The book not only helps students learn the information they need to pass certification exams, but it also helps them see how scientific content applies to actual practice. This new edition also features a very enhanced Evolve resource package, along with new material on boosting your knowledge of nutrition and research - two subjects of growing interest in the massage therapy profession.

Genres: Nonfiction

736 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1999

Reviews

[Lisa · Rating 1 out of 5]

There was consenus in our massage therapy cohort, this book was made to be more difficult than necessary. "Too many words," "Arcane explanations." "Lack of the big picture, so that the details could be framed in an understandable way," and the negative observations continued. Moreover, the questions at the end of chapters were more a challenge to figure out how Fritz thinks than understanding concepts.

I highly recommend replacing books by Fritz as foundational massage therapy texts for these 3 texts:
ONE Applied Anatomy & Physiology by Lisa Archer (editions post 2018 so as to include new understanding of the interstitium) *Pathology was thin..so add the Pathology sections from the text below.
TWO Unit-1 of Massage Therapy in Practice by Sandy Fallon (this is solid coverage of all those nonanatomy-physiology topics) + Pathology sections
THREE Trail Guide and Trail Guide flashcards, vol1 and vol2

[Michelle · Rating 3 out of 5]

If I were to do it over again, I might purchase the Trail Guide for studying. That being said....
I will be reading the last piece left of this work starting next week, which is Pathology. Will update on that when I am done.

[Nicholas Williams · Rating 3 out of 5]

wow.. intense at times. still getting through it.. still happy to have it. i see how it relates to and is essential to massage therapy!

[Abbystone Biscuit1 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent resource!