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Mosby's Pathology for Massage Therapists, 1e

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I taught a pathology course for massage students using this textbook. I thought the the red/yellow/green stopligh visual would make this book a nice reference book, although I knew up front that the descriptions of some of the conditions were not entirely accurate. In reality, I found that I had to spend a great deal of time correcting the textbook each time we covered a new chapter. This text doesn't even begin to cover current pathophysiology, which I think is important so that students can begin to think about what causes disease, rather than just memorize a list of conditions where massage isn't indicated. I found many of the references questionable. We expect massage therapists to have a good scientific knowledge of the human body, why shouldn't they have an equally scientific knowledge of pathology? I will not teach with this textbook again.

I've only had the book a week and I've used it to reference two clients already. It is loaded with useful photos and is fast and easy to use. The little traffic light icon tells you immediately if you can do a massage (green), can't do a massage (red), or if you need to read for more info (yellow). Why hasn't someone thought of this before? Thank you Ms. Salvo! Worth twice the price and its HARDCOVER!!!!

mosby should be ashamed for printing this book without having had a living breathing editor look at this thing! my massage school decided to switch pathology books for our semester. we all shelled out top dollar for this piece of junk which had just been published at the time (yes, that's six years ago and i'm still annoyed, guess i need a massage) and then had to go purchase a different book because this was so un-helplful. glaring typos and poorly written. while i am not an expert on pathology nor a writer, i have worked in a medical library for many years and have a good idea of what constitutes a quality book of this type. this ain't it folks.

This book is fairly direct with its content, but covers a wide spectrum to keep the information interesting.

This is a useful refernce for massage from the sense of getting accurate information about physical conditions in which massage is contraindicated.

Very good book with a lot of picture to illustrate the sicknesses

Great reference for testing techniques, trigger point instruction and charts. Every serious massage therapist should have one on their shelf.