Healing Massage: A Simple Approach (Nurse As Healer Series.) [Paperback]

Marsha Jelonek Walker (Author), Jonathan D. Walker (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 22, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0766806928 | ISBN-13: 978-0766806924 | Edition: 1

A series of brief healing message routines highlight this book. It includes step-by-step and visual instructions for a one-minute foot massage, a three-minute should rub, plus short routines using lotion for back, shoulders, neck and feet. The focus is on massage scenarios that can be realistically incorporated into a nurse's busy schedule. The authors address the role that message can play in facilitating well-being and healing, and offer explanations for the links between thoughts, feelings and stress, and how they affect body tension. Massage is discussed for patients with a variety of health conditions.

Editorial Reviews

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"Any nurses who are interested in incorporating massage in their practice and would like to learn more about energy work will benefit from this book. Its well-organized approach will give the practitioner a more clear understanding of this healing modality." -- Kenneth B. Siegfried, BA (Pace University)

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Continuing the series designed to encourage nurses to use holistic and integrated approaches to healing people, two massage therapists explain how to give a fie-minute massage both to patients and to others in daily life. Most of the text concerns conceptual aspects rather than tactile techniques. - SciTech Book News March 2003

About the Author

Marsha Jelonek Walker became a Registered Massage Therapist in 1980 and began a private practice. In 1992 she received her Masters Degree in Nursing and went on in 1994 to help develop a Holistic Nursing Series for the Continuing Education Department at the University of Texas School of Nursing in Austin. She continues to enjoy her private practice and is on the faculty of the Lauterstein-Conway School of Massage in Austin. In 1997, she became a Certified Holistic Nurse and is now working on her Ph.D. in Holistic Adult Nursing.

Product Details

• Paperback: 524 pages
• Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning; 1 edition (November 22, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0766806928
• ISBN-13: 978-0766806924
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,822,502 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Healing Massage: A Simple Approach for Nurses, December 31, 2002

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Robert E. Cantrell (McKinleyville, California United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Healing Massage: A Simple Approach (Nurse As Healer Series.) (Paperback)

This is the best illustrated and best step by step instructions for administering healing massage, in the brief time afforded by overworked nurses, that I have ever seen. I am professionally trained in Massage, but my sessions last from 45 minutes to two hours! I have always hoped that someone would finally be able to provide training for brief but highly effective techniges that could be applied right in hospitals, where it is most needed! These authors have done just that! I highly recommend this book!