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Massage Therapy for Professionals [VHS] | ![Massage Therapy for Professionals [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZZ7HFVQZL._SL500_.jpg) | Category: Video
Buy Used: $17.99
as of 9/6/2010 05:17 MDT details
Seller: snowcrowley2
Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 37067
Format: Color, Full Screen, Original recording remastered, Restored, NTSC
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 84 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 3.9 x 1.1
ISBN: 0971316465
EAN: 9780971316461
ASIN: 0971316465
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Description
Professional Massage Therapy has long been a secret to the general public but now the secrets are revealed through this video. Our video class is taught by a massage therapist instructor with over 20 years of teaching who prepares massage students to take state certification tests. While each state has different certification or registration procedures for therapists, the principles and knowledge are the same no matter where you go. This video shows you what you've always wanted to know. See what up until now could only be seen by enrolling in a professional massage therapy school taking many months and several hundreds of dollars in fees. We bring the hidden techniques of massage therapy to you for use in the comfort of your own home. You can even watch this instructional video over and over again to improve and perfect on your massage therapy technique. Massage therapy has been around for hundreds of year but only recently has medical science played a role in the field. We can now medically explain the benefits of massage and understand the cause and effect relationship between massage and health. This video explores the medical reasoning behind massage therapy to give a broader, more comprehensive understanding. The Massage for Professionals video starts where the Basic Massage video leaves off giving instruction on everything from strokes, techniques and pressure points to anatomy, physiology and muscle/bone structure. This video gives the viewer a great understanding of the physiological principles behind massage. With that understanding, the viewer can combine that knowledge with knowledge of basic techniques to be a very successful professional or someone who gives fantastic back rubs.
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 Very disappointing August 30, 2010
E. McAdams (France)
I bought this as part of a very reasonably priced Combo set. Unfortunately, the material, all of it, is of very poor quality, both in presentation and content. It looks like very old material rehashed.
The "Professional Massage" DVD is NOT advanced and would make a reasonable "Basic Massage" DVD if it was re-edited (e.g. move the anatomy to the start and use better graphics), the Shiatsu sections removed and the sessions re-recorded in higher quality.
The associated workbook is very poor compared to other books available; there are no detailed diagrams of the muscles to be massaged! Etc., etc..
In summary, this is a load of old material well passed its sell-by date which should be re-done rather than resold. You do get quite a lot for your money, but you would do much better to save up and buy a higher quality product.
PS Re Available Material: A review of (better) massage material (DVDs, books etc) available can be found at the TerraRosa massage web site
It scores the Massage Therapy for Professionals video 0/5 and says "A complete waste of money & time. Another deceiving series. It is blurry, cheaply made and filmed on a home video. The first part shows some massage techniques by a "professional", and the second part the narrator gave a lecture on the anatomy of muscles on a whiteboard with hand drawn pictures."
It also scores the Basic Massage Therapy video 0/5 and says "This DVD is a waste of time. Available on the web and Amazon with great hype and labels such as "#1 best seller" & "A must see" by Dr. Heith Root, "Golden Web Award". "Recommended by Indiana College of Oriental Medicine", This college is a Martial Arts College run by a church. Showing June a "certified therapist" giving Swedish massage from a distance."
I should have read this before buying the set
Not only are this company's products apparently highly rated by obscure/bizarre/non-existent organisations and "experts", I note that many of the rave reviewers appear to (i) have bought many/all of this company's products (and largely only their products, no other massage products that I can see), (ii) rated them all 5/5 and (iii) used extreme, over-the-top superlatives to describe these very mediocre products. One of the products is even given 5/5 by someone who admits that they have not yet bought it. Some of the products seem to have been reviewed several times by the same person, with different stories as to how/why they bought them and how wonderful they were. All very Puzzling.
 Why is picture quality so grainy? December 17, 2009
pk
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought this based on the many glowing 5 star recommendations. The only negatives compared it to watching a VHS tape. More accurately, this tape has the picture and sound quality of a bootleg VHS product. The camera work looks like it was done with one (maybe two) home camcorders. Don't be fooled by the nice clean picture on the cover, that is the only part of the tape produced professionally. The instruction is good enough, but the media aspects (picture, sounds, camera angles) fall short.
The instruction is decent enough, but it also refers you to a manual that is not included with the DVD.
Again, I recommend the instruction, but the video/audio quality makes it a bit painful to watch. To summarize, think of this as your favorite masseuse talking and providing instructional commentary while recording a massage session with a (or two) camcorder(s) on a stand as well as some classroom instruction at the end.
I hope this helps to temper the expectations of all the 5 star dvd ratings.
 A good useful, practical video. December 7, 2009
N. Vinnikova (PA, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The DVD is packed with great instructional material going beyond made-for-home-use foo-foo for beginners. It touches anatomy basics, uses more than just ordinary Swedish stuff and shows the actual routine. I'm freshly out of a massage school and new to profession, so found this video extremely helpful and useful. I'm sure even seasoned massage therapists will learn a thing or two, or at least refresh their knowledge of muscles. The only wish for this DVD is better quality of the video itself. It seems to be a digitized VHS tape. I'd say it's worth the money though.
Very helpful September 7, 2009
Hyun Ju Ahn
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Very helpful, who just start their career as a massage therapist this dvd helps those to get more skills. Recommended
 Good Video January 21, 2008
Gustavo A. Jimenez (San Jose, CA)
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
The delivery time was great. I got when I expected. I only gave 4 stars because the quality of the image. The different strokes had helped me to broad the kind of massages I give. The explanations are great as well. You can tell the video was made for VHS and then made in DVD.
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