Fascial Stretch Therapy 2nd Edition

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The new edition of this highly successful book, written by Ann and Chris Frederick, directors of the Stretch to Win(R) Institute, is packed with theory and practice, including a host of beautifully illustrated assisted stretches.

Fascial Stretch Therapy(TM), Second edition is a practical and highly applicable manual for any massage therapist, movement instructor, physical or occupational therapist, athletic or sports trainer, fitness instructor or osteopath – in fact for any hands-on practitioners who wants to learn new skills and improve therapeutic outcomes. It clearly demonstrates how FST(TM) assessment, treatment, and training are used in a variety of common circumstances encountered in manual therapy and athletic training.

What’s new for the second edition…

Discusses a very brief history of a still expanding and evolving new industry of assisted stretching. It also covers the negative aspects of this trend, including the lack of assessments and specificity and common stretching methods. Approaches are listed so you can compare and contrast.

Includes a new Chapter 2 with updates of the highest quality evidence-based research useful to the field of assisted stretching. It includes the authors’ own research about the effects of FST(TM) on chronic nonspecific low back pain as well as a discussion about a recent systematic review of the acute effects of muscle stretching on physical performance range of motion, and injury incidence in healthy active individuals.

Lists contraindications and indications for FST(TM) along with new updates to reflect current understandings (e.g. about Golgi tendon organs) with s/upporting references.

Shows how this method will save you time when forming a working hypothesis that will quickly be proven or disproven so that you will have enough time to develop other hypotheses that you can test for efficacy, all within a single session.

Includes new photographs and artwork along with new titles to reflect the change in nomenclature from the use of the term ‘fascial line(s)’ to ‘fascial net(s)’.

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

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About the authors

Preface

Foreword to first edition

Foreword to second edition

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Section 1

Section 2

Glossary

Index

About the Authors

Chris Frederick has been a physical therapist/physiotherapist since 1989, focusing on manual and movement therapy – particularly with integration of Fascial Stretch Therapy and ancient Taoist principles and practices. He has an extensive background in dance, both as a professional
dancer of contemporary ballet, as well as being a practitioner in the specialty of dance physical therapy/physiotherapy.
Chris is also well versed in the ancient movement and healing arts of tai chi and qigong. He is a co-author with Thomas Myers of the chapter on stretching in the seminal book Fascia: The tensional network of the human body edited by Robert Schleip et al.

Ann Frederick is a former professional dancer, having grown up in her mother’s dance studio, starting to dance at the age of four. Teaching dance students at age fourteen, she also started to do assisted stretching on individuals to improve flexibility and correct imbalances.
Over the next twenty years, Ann developed and refined her approach to assisted stretching with a practical methodology that clearly differentiated it from traditional methods. Rather than focusing on stretching isolated muscles, she became a pioneer in evolving the art and science of
assessing and stretching the human fascial network.
Ann originally called her unique system of neuromyofascial manual therapy by The Frederick Method and the Stretch to Win Method. After her success working as a stretch coach for the USA Men’s Olympic Wrestling Team of 1996, she grew her private practice and trained staff.
Besides improving the recovery and performance of professional athletes, she soon discovered that her method, now called Fascial Stretch Therapy™ (or FST), also rapidly helped clients of all ages with a variety of chronic, unresponsive pain conditions, functional imbalances and other
common neuromusculoskeletal disorders.
The Fredericks are both certified by Thomas Myers in Anatomy Trains® Structural Integration and are the authors of the popular book Stretch to Win. Ann and Chris directed their own highly successful center for FST, physical therapy/ physiotherapy, Structural Integration, chiropractic,
acupuncture, sports massage and Pilates for nearly 20 years. They are now Directors of the Stretch to Win® Institute at www.stretchtowin.com, where they offer certification training workshops in FST and LifeStretch®.

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