Swedish Health Institute™ is an Acupuncture & Sports Medicine Clinic located in the heart of Los Angeles, and vicinity of Beverly Hills, Hollywood, and Miracle Mile.

Dr. Anders offer a wide variety of acupuncture and manual therapy treatments of both western and eastern origins.

Care for you as a patient is a vital part of his practice. Time and attention is in focus to help find the root cause of the problems. Effective 'cutting-edge' healing techniques are combined with a number of selected home exercises for a fast and lasting recovery.

Dr Anders applies focus on a wholistic approach in his work to help patients in their healing process. He considers healing to be a team-work between patient and practitioner, and emphasizes therefore additional guidance on how to prevent the disorders from recurring in the future.

Dr. Anders Jelvéus, Doctor of Naprapathy, and licensed Acupuncturist, is specializing in sports injuries, and orthopedic disorders, but does also treat a wide range of other ailments. His patients includes Olympic athletes, and professionals in the entertainment industry.

Dr Anders is the founder/owner of the Swedish Health Institute™, and has 26 years of experience in the field as a manual medicine, sports medicine, and soft tissue expert. He additionally has more than 10 years proficiency working with, and incorporating Asian medicine. Anders is furthermore a published author with the book Integrated Sports Massage Therapy™, by Elsevier.

Dr. Anders is also, since over 21 years, a highly respected teacher in manual therapies in Europe, USA, and Asia.

By

Anders Jelvéus, DN, leg. Naprapat, MTOM, LAc, CMT , International educator in manual therapies; Founder of Swedish Health Institute™, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Description

Integrated Sports Massage Therapy is a highly illustrated evidence-based handbook which presents a wide range of effective sports massage techniques to cover any sports-related situation.

Anders Jelveus explains and applies effective techniques from a variety of disciplines of manual therapy, ranging from commonly used sports massage strokes to more advanced concepts for real-life effective sports massage treatments. The presented techniques serve as a great addition for any therapist seeking to work with athletes, and are suitable for pre-event, post-event, inter-event, and in remedial sports massage therapy.

This unique book offers a comprehensive presentation of sports massage therapy including:

• Sports massage history

• Basic sports massage strokes and work postures

• Sports massage applications

• Event-based sports massage treatment guidelines

• Sports-specific massage treatment recommendations

• Therapeutic muscle stretching techniques

• Therapeutic muscle stretching applied to specific muscle groups

• Positional Release Techniques (PRT)

• Acupressure and Tui Na techniques with applications

• Myofascial release techniques

• Connective tissue massage

• Lymphatic drainage massage

• Myofascial Trigger Point etiology and treatment techniques

• Sports injuries

• Athletic taping

• Remedial Sports massage applications

• Athletic self massage techniques.

The book is suitable for all manual therapy students and practitioners, whether novice or advanced, including massage therapists, physical therapists, osteopaths, chiropractors, naprapaths, naturopaths and acupuncturists.

Published: APR-2011

ISBN 10: 0-443-10126-4

ISBN 13: 978-0-443-10126-7

Imprint: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE

http://www.amazon.com/Integrated-Sports-Massage-Therapy-Comprehensive/dp/0443101264

http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.cws_home/724804/description#description