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Overview
The third edition of Facilitated Stretching is now revised, reorganized, and packaged with a DVD—surpassing its popular predecessor as the best source for the latest PNF (proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation) stretching techniques.
Facilitated Stretching, Third Edition, provides a useful overview of PNF stretching—a safe and easy-to-use method that involves stretching the muscle, contracting it isometrically against resistance, then stretching it again to a new range of motion. These steps apply whether you are isolating one muscle at a time or using the spiral-diagonal patterns of PNF to stretch groups of muscles simultaneously. The third edition contains all the great features of the previous edition, plus the following:
-A companion DVD that demonstrates live stretching techniques from the book for a clearer understanding
-New stretching routines for a variety of popular activities including running, golf, swimming, cycling, and throwing and racket sports
-General stretches and stretches for older participants
-Stretching activities with added strength work using stability balls and elastic bands
-Stretching and strengthening tips for dealing with—and even preventing—common soft-tissue injuries
The new edition has also been reorganized using a regional approach to presenting muscle group functions around specific joints. You will learn how to stretch each major muscle in the body, both individually and in groups. In addition, you will discover how to appropriately use group pattern stretches to improve flexibility and coordination and individual muscle stretches to relax tight muscles and break up adhesions within or between muscles. Instruction is provided for using the techniques on your own or with a partner.
More than 350 photographs showing the progression of stretches enrich the book while the new 60-minute DVD demonstrates the stretches and strengthening exercises in even more detail. Icons are featured throughout the text, indicating which exercises are demonstrated on the DVD. A unique binding also allows you to lay the book flat while performing the exercises without losing your place. The DVD serves as a great visual tool for improving your technique and getting the most out of your routines.
An ideal reference for fitness professionals, Facilitated Stretching, Third Edition, provides techniques to help athletes, patients, and clients improve flexibility, strength, and coordination while also treating and preventing injuries. Students in massage therapy, athletic training, and other professional training programs will discover how to use facilitated stretching in conjunction with massage and other manual therapy techniques. A test package is also available for instructors and is conveniently offered through a product-specific Web site: www.HumanKinetics.com/FacilitatedStretching.
With Facilitated Stretching, Third Edition, you have a cutting-edge tool packed with the latest PNF stretching techniques to help you assess current muscle function, improve range of motion, increase strength, reduce overuse injuries, and enhance performance.
The book contains predominantly black-and-white illustrations, with some two-color illustrations.
Editorial Reviews
Joseph L. Hughes
This book provides a good overview of PNF (proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation) stretching techniques along with pictorials and other pertinent information required for safe stretching. The authors succeed in presenting an updated understanding of PNF stretching techniques, both active and passive, as well as how they can be incorporated into treatment regimens. Written for athletes, coaches, and sports medicine professionals, this book facilitates a greater understanding of a proper stretching session and provides nice pictorials of major stretches. The principal author is obviously an authority on this subject matter and is careful to not talk over the heads of his readers. PNF stretching is comprehensive, including its history, proper positioning, as well as different techniques. A great overview of muscle origin, insertion, and action is presented, which is critical information to achieve proper positioning of stretches. Another nice feature is the clear pictures which are quickly accessible via colored index tabs. Case studies are incorporated, as is a section on combining soft tissue work and stretching. A review of PNF literature is also given, including pros and cons. In my opinion, this book is a very helpful aid in furthering one's understanding of PNF stretching. The authors do a great job of describing proper stretching sequences with regard to positioning, verbal cueing, and timing. It also promotes independence by showing self-stretches for all major muscle groups. Since the authors do not go into depth on tissue physiology, this book is reader friendly for a wide audience.Raymond J. Barile
This book has been written to provide a self-teaching style of the stretching technique known as PNF stretching. The author brings together the concepts of PNF stretching theory and techniques and presents them in a self-teaching style text. PNF stretching is a difficult topic to teach from a book, and the author is successful in meeting this objective. According to the author, this book is aimed at massage therapists, althletic trainers, physicians, coaches, and athletes. This projected audience may be a bit broad. In my opinion, this book is well suited for physical therapists and athletic trainers. The black-and-white photographs and illustrations present and demonstrate particular muscle groups and PNF stretching progressions that make self-instruction easy. This book could benefit from more and updated references. This handsome book would be a valued additon to the allied health practitioner's library. The author has brought PNF stretching and theory to an understandable and practical level.From The Critics
Reviewer:Raymond J. Barile, MS, ATC (Cornell University)Description:This book has been written to provide a self-teaching style of the stretching technique known as PNF stretching.
Purpose:The author brings together the concepts of PNF stretching theory and techniques and presents them in a self-teaching style text. PNF stretching is a difficult topic to teach from a book, and the author is successful in meeting this objective.
Audience:According to the author, this book is aimed at massage therapists, althletic trainers, physicians, coaches, and athletes. This projected audience may be a bit broad. In my opinion, this book is well suited for physical therapists and athletic trainers.
Features:The black-and-white photographs and illustrations present and demonstrate particular muscle groups and PNF stretching progressions that make self-instruction easy. This book could benefit from more and updated references.
Assessment:This handsome book would be a valued additon to the allied health practitioner's library. The author has brought PNF stretching and theory to an understandable and practical level.
Booknews
Translates the complexities of proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF) stretching into an easy, step-by-step method for athletes, coaches, and sports medicine professionals, showing how to perform 66 facilitated stretches covering all major muscles and muscle groups. This edition features the latest PNF stretching techniques, and is expanded to include a broader scope of stretches and self- stretches. It also includes a new section on using facilitated stretching along with soft tissue therapy for reducing pain and restoring range of motion lost due to injury. Includes b&w photos demonstrating techniques, and two-color anatomical diagrams. Presented in a wire ring binding surrounded by a paper cover. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)3 Stars from Doody
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Meet the Author
Robert McAtee, BA, LMT, CSCS, C-PT has been a sport massage therapist since 1981, specializing in sport and orthopedic massage therapy. Since 1988 he has maintained an active, international sport massage practice in Colorado Springs, CO.
McAtee has been using facilitated stretching techniques with clients and athletes since 1986. He teaches facilitated stretching and sport massage seminars throughout the United States and internationally to massage therapists, athletic trainers, personal trainers, chiropractors, Olympic-caliber athletes and coaches, and amateur athletes.
He has been a keynote speaker and featured presenter at numerous national and international conventions. He was one of only 180 massage therapists selected from a field of 800 applicants to be on the medical services team for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.
McAtee received his massage training at the Institute for Psycho-Structural Balancing (IPSB) in Los Angeles and San Diego (1981-82) and through the Sports Massage Training Institute (SMTI) in Costa Mesa, California (1986). He holds a BA in Psychology from California State University (1974), is Nationally Certified in Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (1992), is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (1998), and an ACE-certified personal trainer (2006).
McAtee regularly presents workshops on facilitated stretching, massage, and soft-tissue injury care nationally and internationally. For more information, please contact him at
Pro-Active Massage Therapy
1119 N. Wahsatch Ave., Suite 1
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
USA
Tel: 719-475-1172
Website: www.stretchman.com
Jeff Charland, PT, ATC, CSCS, GDMT, was a 1983 graduate of the University of Wisconsin at Madison physical therapy program, where he also competed as a varsity wrestler on a scholarship. Beginning in 1987, Charland lectured in the areas of sports medicine, rehabilitation, and assessment and treatment of neural tissue disorders. He was a team trainer and traveled internationally with the U.S. Judo and U.S. Wrestling Federations' national and Olympic teams.
Charland completed the graduate program in manipulative therapy at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia, under the direction of Bob Elvey, a world-renowned physiotherapist. He was a certified athletic trainer through the National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA) and a certified strength and conditioning specialist (CSCS) through the NSCA. In 1997, he earned a certification in active release techniques. He also served as director of a sports physical therapy clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Charland passed away during the preparation of this third edition.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I. The Prerequisites
Chapter 1. Understanding the Basics of Stretching
Types of Muscle Contractions
Reflexes Relevant to Stretching
Types of Stretching
Guidelines for Stretching
Chapter 2. Focusing on Facilitated Stretching
Overview of PNF
From PNF Stretching to Facilitated Stretching
Guidelines for Performing Facilitated Stretches
Detailed Sequence for Facilitated Stretching
Safety Considerations for Facilitated Stretching
Effect of Fatigue on Stretcher and Partner
Chapter 3. Using the Spiral-Diagonal Patterns of PNF
Practicing the Patterns as Free Movement
Stretching With the Patterns
Strengthening With the Patterns
Part II. The Stretches
Chapter 4. Stretches for the Lower Extremity
Hip Extensors: Hamstrings and Gluteus Maximus
Hip Rotators: Piriformis
Hip Abductors
Hip Adductors
Hip Flexors: Quadriceps Group
Hip Flexors: Psoas and Iliacus
Plantar Flexors: Gastrocnemius and Soleus
Toe Flexors: Flexor Hallucis Longus, Flexor Digitorum Longus
Dorsiflexors: Anterior Tibialis
Toe Extensors: Extensor Hallucis Longus, Extensor Digitorum Longus
Evertors--Peroneal (Fibularis) Group; Invertors--Tibialis Anterior and Posterior
Spiral-Diagonal Patterns for the Lower Extremity
Chapter 5. Stretches for the Upper Extremity
Shoulder Stabilizers
Pectoralis Major, Biceps, Triceps
Muscles of the Wrist and Hand
Spiral-Diagonal Patterns for the Upper Extremity
Chapter 6. Stretches for the Neck and Torso
Muscles of the Neck
Muscles of the Torso
Part III. Beyond the Basics
Chapter 7. Combining Techniques to Release Fibrotic Tissue
Modifying Fibrotic Tissue to Reduce Pain and Restore Range of Motion
Blending Soft Tissue Work and Facilitated Stretching
Releasing Fibrotic Tissue: Six Examples
Chapter 8. Stretching Routines for Specific Activities
Running
Throwing and Racket Sports
Cycling
Golf
Swimming
Everyday Sequence
Rusty Hinges
Chapter 9. Routines for Common Soft Tissue Injuries
Caring for Acute and Chronic Injuries
Focusing on Upper Body Conditions
Focusing on Lower Body Conditions
Glossary
References
Index
About the Authors