Download or read book Save Your Hands! written by Lauriann Greene and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive, authoritative, research-based information to help manual therapists prevent injury, enhance their practice, and prolong their careers. Includes practical information, advice and suggestions on good body mechanics, designing the workspace for greater comfort and safety, protecting vulnerable parts of the body by finding alternative techniques, staying in shape with a conditioning program designed by a doctor of physical therapy specifically for manual therapists, and recognizing and treating early symptoms to keep them from turning into injury. Written by a leading expert with over 13 years of experience and a certified professional ergonomist with over 17 years of experience, with contributions by a doctor of physical therapy with over 20 years of experience. Written in an accessible, easy-to-read style, this all-new second edition includes over 80 illustrations and photographs and has been endorsed by many prominent members of the manual therapy community.