Customer Reviews

The Complete Massage Pack: Basic & Professional Massage Therapy v2.0

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These two dvds really do cover a wide range of massage techniques. The Basic Massage dvd is best to base your routine around. The Professional Massage dvd goes into more technical detail with names of different muscles and tissues. The Professional Massage dvd also goes one step further and gives some tips on setting up your own massage business. The reason why I give this product only 4 stars is the production quality is poor, especially on the Professional Massage dvd. The picture quality is grainy and when the instructer points to notes on a dry erase board, the picture is so over-lighted that you can not read parts of the board. However, this dvd is still worth the cost for all the information that you get. For those people who are interested in massage therapy as a career, I also suggest the book "Massage Therapy Career Guide" by Steve Capellini (ISBN: 1562533827). This book covers all the behind the scenes business to becomming a massage therapist. One of the best parts of the book gives tips on massage tests. I have yet to find anything more nerve racking than giving a test massage to a potential future employer, but this section takes a lot of tension out of the situation. Other great features include liability insurance, taxes, third-party billing, dream and nightmare days in the life a massage therapist and the Resource section is lengthy, concise and filled with addresses, phone numbers and URLs.

This is a great learning tool for learning Swedish massage and some trigger points. There is nothing like seeing it done physically as opposed to seeing it in a book. The video is done well and I used it to help me get through massage school. I also found it as a helpful reference when I studied for the National Certification Examination for Massage and Bodywork. I also found the following excellent preparation sources for the national certification exam.
Patrick Leonardi's "The Ultimate Study Guide for the National Certification Examination for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork: Key Review Questions and Answers" Volume 1, Volume 2, and Volume 3. The study guides were so complete for the type of questions encountered on the national exam. This is a must buy for anyone taking the National Certification Exam. These books helped me to pass the first time.

I am enrolled in the study of massage therapy in school, and have been looking for a video to help supplement my career field. This is absolutely the best video I have come across so far. It wraps up the basic techniques of massage therapy, and also let me know what to expect as I enter the career field.

So glad I ran across this, I am recommending it to all my classmates and my teacher as well. Thanks again!

i don't have a lot of time to waste so i bought this and a couple other massage related products. I really liked this and learned a lot.

i recommend this to novice beginers like me

Nice video set for those who want to learn about massage. I just wish I would have seen it earlier.

I took two little massage courses at a community college and then got this video. It really is pretty good it shows all sorts of different motions you can use while massaging and they explain "how long to" and "positions" etc.. It's nice for helping to learn how to give a nice basic massage.

This is a very well organized video and explained what I wanted to know about basic massage techniques. It is good to own a video like this, since you will not remember everything you see the first time. I have not had a chance to see the Professional Massage video. This seems to be a lot more detailed with pictures and so on

I've purchased a few massage videos on and over over the years. This is a decent one. Not awesome on production values but solid on instruction.

I really prefer this two video set also sold on Amazon:
Basic Massage Therapy

This DVD was a great buy to me. It secured some skills I already knew and showed me a couple I didnt. The Professional portion got me to thinking about restudying my massage notes.

This is a videos that I bought.

I give them a solid 4.5 stars.

It's loaded with informaton but don't have the glitz of a TV infomercial which is fine with me. I just like to get down to business and learn.

I didn't get everything the first time I watched it but that's why I got the DVDs. I'll be watching as a refresher from time to time. It sometimes use pretty techical terms but they do come back and explain everything.