[libribook.com] Traumatic Scar Tissue Management 1st Edition

stories about how basic massage therapy skills were able to help camp survivors
with a variety of scars and burns. I was fortunate to continue our conversations
when we met again at another seminar in New Brunswick. Nancy understands
the challenges of burn and scar survivors completely. Her finely tuned clinical
and interpersonal skills reflect decades of hands-on care of this mostly hidden
population.
This remarkable resource breaks new ground. It describes the wound healing
process and considers how therapists’ hands can reduce anxiety, pain,
inflammation, and tissue tension. It stitches together the importance of manual
therapies with collaborative therapeutic partnerships and therapist selfcare. It
positions the profession’s capacities to help clients with scars within an
outcomes-based framework that may be employed by educators, massage
therapists and researchers. To my knowledge, no other reference
comprehensively combines the etiology, and factors associated with scars with
massage therapy treatment guidelines and principles.
I hope that Traumatic Scar Tissue Management: Massage Therapy Principles,
Practice and Protocols inspires massage therapists to look between its covers for
answers to their questions and to seek evidence-informed treatment solutions for
client scars.
Pamela Fitch, BA, RMT
Author, Talking Body Listening Hands
Faculty, Algonquin College
June 2015