Save Your Hands!: The Complete Guide to Injury Prevention and Ergonomics for Manual Therapists, Third Edition - Softcover

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Lauriann Greene, has been a leading writer, speaker and researcher on injury prevention and ergonomics for manual therapists since 1995. She studied at Brown and Harvard Universities before graduating in 1993 with honors from Seattle Massage School. As a former professional orchestral conductor and pianist, Lauriann was interested in working with other musicians to reduce playing-related upper extremity injury. This interest led her to write an article on musculoskeletal disorders among musicians that appeared in Massage Therapy Journal in 1994.Lauriann used this research, as well as her own experience with an MSD while at massage school to develop the Save Your Hands! Workshopsfor massage therapists. After passing her state boards in 1993, she taught these in-person workshops to hundreds of students and professionals across the U.S. and Canada. Based on the anecdotal evidence she obtained from workshop participants and existing research on musculoskeletal disorders, the first edition of Save Your Hands! was published by Infinity Press in 1995. It was the first comprehensive book on injury prevention for massage therapists ever published.Since that time, Lauriann wrote numerous articles for publications including Massage Therapy Journal, Massage Magazine, ISPA PulseMagazine, Massage & Bodywork and Positive Health Magazine. She also wrote a regular column in Massage Magazine called "Helping theHealers" for two years. Speaking at industry conferences like ABMP and IECSC also helped her get the word out about this important subject. In 2005, Lauriann joined forces with ergonomist and massage therapist Rick Goggins and the ABMP on a a survey that produced the first reliable statistics on the prevalence of injury among massage therapists and bodyworkers. The results were published in 2006 in Massage& Bodywork. Lauriann also completed training to become a Certified Ergonomics Assessment Specialist (CEAS) at that time. Lauriann nowoffers a range of injury prevention and ergonomics consulting and educational services including CE courses to therapists, schools, clinics and spas.